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Definition of Indecorous

Indecorous
Indecorous In`de*co"rous (?; 277), a. [L. indecorous. See In- not, and Decorous.] Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. --Burke. Syn: Unbecoming; unseemly; unbefitting; rude; coarse; impolite; uncivil; ill-bred.

Meaning of Indecorous from wikipedia

- Catholic Council of Trent specifically forbade, among other things, the "indecorous" in religious art. Concepts of decorum, increasingly sensed as inhibitive...
- criticised by church elders, particularly Bernard of Clairvaux and Suger, as indecorous. Modifications were made to the austere Cité Palace in Paris for Eleanor's...
- of their own religious, characterizing these acts as "unheard of, most indecorous, and highly preposterous." Historically, in some Celtic monasteries, abbesses...
- women; it was widely criticized by social and Christian conservatives as indecorous and contrary to the movement's values while embraced and defended by libertarians...
- her refreshment. Arabella goes upstairs and Mandryka, ruminating on his indecorous behavior and blaming himself, stays downstairs. Arabella comes down the...
- custom", had "omitted or paraphrased all p****ages which seemed to him indecorous". The Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten was translated into English...
- of the theme of lost love, after which any other treatment of it seems indecorous." The Indian Journal of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture 1984...
- (landica) was "well understood". In classical Latin, landica was a highly indecorous obscenity found in graffiti and the Priapea; the ****oris was usually...
- unbecomingly or confusedly arranged, nothing that is profane, nothing indecorous, seeing that holiness becometh the house of God. And that these things...
- Haymarket and Three A.M.), alcoholics (e.g., Luks' The Old Duchess), indecorous animals (e.g., Luks' Feeding the Pigs and Woman with Goose), subways (e...