indecorous

Speech parts

1. indecorous - Adjective

2. indecorous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unbecoming unseemly coarse rude indecent untoward indelicate uncivil ill-bred impolite unbefitting naughty wrong offensive rough
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Antonyms

decorous frontier chichi right required good
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Phrases with the word

be indecorous

Examples

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill. William Ernest Henley

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. Nathaniel Hawthorne

was buried with indecent haste Source: Internet

indecorous behavior Source: Internet

language unbecoming to a lady Source: Internet

unseemly to use profanity Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

indecomposability indecomposable indecomposableness indecorously indecorousness indecorum