indecorously

• “A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California?

• “Nancy then blew her nose indecorously into the water and stretched out her hands to me.”

  Fictionaut: Independence Day

• “This is the unstable, mob-minded mass, which sits on the fence, ever ready to fall this side or that and indecorously clamber back again; which puts a Democratic administration into office one election, and a”

  These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London

• “The lady was, therefore, scandalised to the last degree at the mistake which had induced her to speak so indecorously in presence of the daughter of Louis.”

  Quentin Durward

• “As for Rose, the thimble was passed most indecorously some forty-eight hours later and she was able to bask in the certain knowledge that shed finally managed to please Father, if only briefly.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kate Morton Ebook Collection

• “Suppose a Tyrian merchant landed at the port of Canope: he might be scandalized on seeing an onion, a cat, or a goat carried in procession; he might speak indecorously of Isheth, Oshireth, and”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “At this point of the conversation, a sound, indecorously approaching to”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “To this part of the chamber Ellena frequently directed her attention, but did not distinguish Vivaldi; and, though she had taken a station near the grate, she had not courage indecorously to withdraw her veil before so many strangers.”

  The Italian

• “The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.”

  Dubliners

• “They who will give, on occasion, practical proof of capability to push back overshadowing clouds, laugh indecorously at the pretensions of a”

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island

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