How To Use Indecorum In A Sentence
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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?
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To apply the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character savoured of a literary indecorum.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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A scandal is a serious indecorum which is used generally in reference to the clergy.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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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
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As regarded indecorum of dress, the examiners had insisted on deletion when a dress appeared indecent or suggestive.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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An act of public indecorum is also a breach of the peace.
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This is that indecorum, which is explained so much at large by Cicero in his Offices.
An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
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Because Elizabeth has so recently been made aware by Darcy of the effects of her sister's indecorum, she argues strongly that the family should not allow another breach of decorum that could harm the girls' chances of finding a suitable husband.
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Although many of his close associates were censored for indecorum in their religious writings, Titian's paintings were never so criticized, but rather lauded and imitated.
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Caravaggio painted in Rome most of his life although his work was largely rejected at the time on the grounds of "indecorum," according to many biographers.
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She delivered it for the behoof of Mr Chick, who was a stout bald gentleman, with a very large face, and his hands continually in his pockets, and who had a tendency in his nature to whistle and hum tunes, which, sensible of the indecorum of such sounds in a house of grief, he was at some pains to repress at present.
Dombey and Son
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They who compare old accounts with what is now to be seen, will agree that he who looks, at the present day, into the dull, dark and simmering waters, can have no conception of the jollity, frolic, riot, dissipation, and indecorum, which once reigned there.
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The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
