indecorumn.
/ɪndɪˈkɔːrəm/ 1. An indecorous or unbecoming action or proceeding; an impropriety, a violation of the rules of behaviour proper to the sex, age, or character of the actor.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun] > instance of
indecorum1575
undecency1624
indecency1639
evagation1649
impropriety1685
sin1780
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > instance of
unconabletya1340
indecorum1575
undecency1624
sin1780
impropriety1831
1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.ijv To entermingle merie iests in a serious matter is an Indecorum.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. I2 If any decorum be omitted, or indecorum committed, I can not otherwise excuse it.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling vi. 108 They will not be guilty of such an Indecorum.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 109. ⁋1 It may be thought an Indecorum that I visit a Man.
1828 T. Carlyle Werner in Foreign Rev. 1 95 It was a much coarser curiosity..which the dissipated man, by successive indecorums occasioned.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 81 This was a flagrant indecorum, and known violation of the order of the festival.
2. † b. Inelegance, unhandsomeness. Obsolete. rare.
a. The quality of being indecorous; lack of decorum; impropriety, now esp. of behaviour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun]
unseemlinessc1380
indecency1589
undecency1589
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
unseemingness1540
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
misbecomingness1644
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unworthiness1608
inconveniencya1616
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
indecorousness1811
1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 542 It is little detriment or Indecorum for them to use so well a limited indulgence.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 60 Upon a bare Moral account of the indecorum, unreasonableness, unseasonableness or utter unfitness of the thing it self.
1742 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1885) ii. ii. xxii. 88 A woman suffers more..by public indecorum than by secret wantonness.
1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 324 The charge is not..for indecorum, or in~discretion, but for falsehood.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. vi. 137 The adroit manner in which he apologized for the indecorums committed by their attendant.
1842 C. Dickens Let. 22 Mar. (1974) III. 158 I have seen none of that greediness and indecorum on which travellers have laid so much emphasis.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [noun]
uncomeliness1542
unhandsomenessa1586
indecorum1598
unseemliness1598
inconcinnity1616
undress1684
inelegance1726
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 47/2 The patient might be mutilate, and without greate indecorum or deformity, should not be able to goe.
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