Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking propriety or good taste. See Synonyms at improper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not decorous; violating propriety or the accepted rules of conduct; unseemly.
- Synonyms Unbecoming, unseemly, improper, rude, unmannerly.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
- adj. lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
Examples
“To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.”
“His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.”
“In American fiction, at least, the opposition between the hulking, indecorous novel and the delicate short story just doesn't very cogently apply.”
“Is doing it on the national stage less indecorous?”
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“Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.”
“The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate.”
“This may sound familiar; I discussed a similar (if reversed) argument a few months ago that using that in a relative clause that refers to a person is somehow de-humanizing and surely at least highly indecorous, if not outright illiterate.”
“They are a tonic in these indecorous times: "He is not the flower of courtesy" "Romeo and Juliet".”
“One must maintain a sense of decorum in this indecorous times.”
“If the builders wish to have a crypt, let them design a crypt; if they wish to have a social hall, let them have a social hall, but the mixture of these together, with a theater and toilets thrown in seems oddly indecorous, especially when cloaked in a centralized typology and profile that gives greater importance to the addition than it would appear to merit.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘indecorous’.
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Moby Dick
Words of interest from the book Moby Dick.
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Words that have gone out of fashion
words are fashionable -wane and wax - in usage. This is an open list of those words now out of fashion.
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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Good Words
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Eazy E
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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booknerd's Words
frenetic, elite, kiss, grip, flesh, sugar, ciao, occult, copious, antiquated, drawl, lush and 101 more...
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GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
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Fraternal Order of Ostentatious Words
Pretentious words finally have a place to congregate and enjoy a drink with one another.
pulchritude, rumbustious, tony, vaunt, vainglory, tyro, animadversion, indecorous
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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