indecorum

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He kicked off his dusty boots with an indecorum quite unusual to him, and hunted up his slippers out of the adjoining room with perhaps an unnecessary amount of noise and haste.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

But it is regarded as an intolerable indecorum for a gentleman to drink more than a single glass, or a lady half a glass, at a time.

From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Hartshorne, Henry