How To Use indecorum In A Sentence
- Somehow the sudden lapses of respected people, odd indecorums, backbitings, bigamies, embezzlements, and attempted chastities -- the surprising leaps they make now and then out of propriety into the police-courts -- somehow news-items of this kind do not altogether -- how shall I put it? More Trivia
- To apply the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character savoured of a literary indecorum. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
- The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum. Chris Weigant: America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair
- Indecorum animatis ut calceis uti aut vitris, quae ubi fracta abjicimus, nam ut de meipso dicam, nec bovem senem vendideram, nedum hominem natu grandem laboris socium. Anatomy of Melancholy
- But if such was her mischievous purpose she was completely disappointed; for Roland Graeme, internally piquing himself on his self-command, neither laughed nor was discomposed; and all that the maiden gained by her frolic was a severe rebuke from her companion, taxing her with mal-address and indecorum. The Abbot
- Being one who still remembers Detroit walking off after losing and being poor sportsmen, and recognizing that they were different players then, I've never forgotten that act of indecorum.
- A scandal is a serious indecorum which is used generally in reference to the clergy. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Your host would blush to point out to you the indecorum of your conduct; and the laws of hospitality oblige him to supply the every want of a guest, even though he be a detenu. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- As regarded indecorum of dress, the examiners had insisted on deletion when a dress appeared indecent or suggestive. Times, Sunday Times
- General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling