| 单词 | indecorous |
| 释义 | indecorous (once / 11140 pages) 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 FAMILYindecorous: indecorously, indecorousness+/decorous: decorously, decorousness, indecorous/decorum: decorous, decorums, indecorum/indecorum: indecorums USAGE EXAMPLESWe’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 impropernot suitable or right or appropriate decorous characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct in good tastesatisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards sedate, staidcharacterized by dignity and propriety propermarked 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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