Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indecent; unsuitable; unbecoming.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Indecent.
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- adjective Not
decent ;indecent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Basically when we went out of McBryde and the policeman told us get back in, in a more undecent (ph) ...
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They better run with the ball while they have the ball in their hands, and not let this opportunity vanish to nail this most “undecent” president.
Think Progress » President Bush believes in fair trials, 2006
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I hope the human being in his district, American citizens, do not approve of his sloppy ,undecent behaviour as house leader.
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I mean that kind of make life harder because you bring decent people and put them around undecent people, who just dont have no sense of value, because when I got there, I felt like it was my responsibility, like it was almost my house.
Alive In Truth 2005
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But the mischief was this, that, for all men could do, there was no possibility to keep them long in that relish; for in a very short while they would have stunk, which had been an undecent thing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But the mischief was this, that, for all men could do, there was no possibility to keep them long in that relish; for in a very short while they would have stunk, which had been an undecent thing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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_ Your Pardon, Sir, I only did inform you as a Friend, that by your fatherly Admonitions, you might refrain her from her undecent Course.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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Sir, quoth one of them, who knew him very well, as his masters next neighbour, Master Justice, doth not your worship know this gentleman who is your neighbours son, and hath absented himself from his fathers house, in an habit so undecent and discrepant from his calling, as you may perceive?
The Fourth Book. XVII. Wherein Are Prosecuted the Wonderful Adventures of the Inn 1909
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"But that were unseemly and undecent, _Bess_," quoth Aunt _Joyce_.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I reckon it undecent, in very deed, Clarice, to meddle up a love-tale with matters of religion.
A Forgotten Hero Not for Him Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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