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单词 indecorous
释义
indecorous
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adj

Indecorous behavior isn't proper or socially acceptable. It would be indecorous to publish your sister's diary in the newspaper or to tell your extended family an offensive joke at Thanksgiving dinner.
Rude or off-color remarks are indecorous, and wearing a bikini to a formal dinner would also be indecorous. Indecorous things lack decorum, which is good manners or proper behavior. Indecorous, from the Latin decorus, "becoming or seemly," comes from the root word decus, "ornament," and is related to words like "decorate" and "decent."
WORD FAMILY
indecorous: indecorously, indecorousness+/decorous: decorously, decorousness, indecorous/decorum: decorous, decorums, indecorum/indecorum: indecorums
USAGE EXAMPLES
We’re unaware of any previous American war fought against an enemy it was considered indecorous or counterproductive to name.
Wall Street Journal(Jun 14, 2016)
After that indecorous arrival, being on top of Yeka is sublime.
BBC(Mar 04, 2016)
“Have I fallen asleep? How indecorous of me.”
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar...(2011)
1adj lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
indecorous behavior
Syn|Ant
indelicate
indecent
offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
improper
not suitable or right or appropriate
decorous
characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct
in good taste
satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards
sedate, staid
characterized by dignity and propriety
proper
marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
2adj not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
indecorous behavior
Syn
indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward
improper
not suitable or right or appropriate
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