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indecorum

[in-di-kawr-uhm, -kohr-] / ˌɪn dɪˈkɔr əm, -ˈkoʊr- /


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The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language."

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Up the steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum.

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Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.

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It must be reluctantly admitted that some of these ebullitions have bordered closely on what we may be forgiven for describing as indecorum.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 by Various

Many of the cartoons actually issued at the outbreak of the Civil War impress one with a sense of indecorum, of ill-timed levity.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper


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