Thesaurus / indecorum

indecorum

How to use indecorum in a sentence

This indecorum excited angry curiosity, and drew down stern remonstrance.

To reconcile to the virtuous spectator this indecorum, most calamitous woes are first depicted as the consequence of illicit love.

THE STRANGERAUGUST VON KOTZEBUE

"The indecorum, Miss Cartwright, has been already committed," said Rosalind.

THE VICAR OF WREXHILLMRS [FRANCES] TROLLOPE

And this doubt is strengthened by the singular indecorum of his having addressed himself to Dr. Maltby.

As a judge of the Supreme Court his incursion into the field of politics, unheralded, but not unprecedented, was an indecorum.

That would have been a weakness which would not only have marked him forever as a cry-baby, but an indecorum too gross for words.

A BOY'S TOWNW. D. HOWELLS

She would think it a positive indecorum to be happy under such circumstances—a want of a proper sense of the fitness of things.

MY WIFE AND IHARRIET BEECHER STOWE

They stood before us as perfectly unconscious of any indecorum as we could be with our clothes on.

After all, he gave umbrage only to the priests and the doctors of the law, against whom he declaimed with the greatest indecorum.

ECCE HOMO!PAUL HENRY THIRY BARON D' HOLBACH

The fair queen, meanwhile, diversified her state duties by lecturing her new subjects upon the indecorum of such ill-timed levity.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985