26 August 2017
indecorous
[in-dek-er-uh s, in-di-kawr-uh s, -kohr-]
adjective
1. not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
Origin of indecorous
Latin
1670-1680 From the Latin word indecōrus, dating back to 1670-80. See in-3, decorous
Related forms
indecorously, adverb
indecorousness, noun
Synonyms
indecent, improper, inappropriate.
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Examples from the Web for indecorous
Historical Examples
The indecorous Elizabethans regarded this custom almost entirely from the point of view of decorum and morality.
Oxford Lectures on Poetry
Andrew Cecil Bradley
We cannot follow them and listen to their conversation—that would be indecorous.
The Youth of Jefferson
J. E. Cooke.
The sight struck him as indecorous in the extreme, and he turned his eyes away.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic
To make such a fuss, also, about your religion seemed to her indecorous and absurd.
The Coryston Family
Mrs. Humphry Ward
The legal gentlemen, I suspect, were responsible for this indecorous zeal, which I never afterwards remarked in a similar party.
Our Old Home, Vol. 2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A 65 very good showing, in these relaxed and indecorous days.
An Idyll of All Fools’ Day
Josephine Daskam Bacon
I supposed so only, for it would have been indecorous to inquire into the meaning of what I saw.
The American Indians
Henry R. Schoolcraft
It would have been horrible, it would have been indecorous, to ask Kamarowsky for money.
Marie Tarnowska
Annie Vivanti
Wouldn’t it be considered scandalous, or at least indecorous, if it were to leak out now?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893
Various
You may be thankful it was my indecorous, unfeminine self, and not any of the proprieties.
Merkland
Mrs. Oliphant
Anagram
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Today’s quote
I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet
– Saadi Shirazi (paraphrased)
On this day
26 August 580 – toilet paper invented by the Chinese.
26 August 1910 – birth of Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) in Yugoslavia, winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in the slums of Calcutta. On 4 September 2016, she became Saint Mother Teresa in a canonisation ceremony conducted by Pope Francis. Died 5 September 1997.
26 August 1946 – George Orwell’s revolutionary novel, Animal Farm, is published.