Indecorous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more
           by mere struggle.                        --Burke.
  
     Syn: Unbecoming; unseemly; unbefitting; rude; coarse;
          impolite; uncivil; ill-bred.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indecorous
       adj 1: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct;
              "indecorous behavior" [syn: {indelicate}] [ant: {decorous}]
       2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or
          proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent
          haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a
          lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their
          untoward ribaldry" [syn: {indecent}, {unbecoming}, {uncomely},
           {unseemly}, {untoward}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecorous":
     Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, barbaric,
     barbarous, cacophonous, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, criminal, crude,
     delinquent, deviant, discourteous, disgraceful, doggerel,
     dysphemistic, evil, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh,
     ignominious, ill-mannered, illegal, immodest, impolite, improper,
     impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
     incorrect, indecent, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, infamous,
     infelicitous, irregular, loose, low, malodorous, not done,
     not the thing, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line,
     outlandish, ridiculous, rough, rude, sacrilegious, scandalous,
     shameful, shameless, sinful, tasteless, terrible, unbecoming,
     unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncivil, uncourtly, uncouth, undecorous,
     undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitting,
     ungenteel, ungodly, ungraceful, unlawful, unpolished, unrefined,
     unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, untoward, vulgar,
     wicked, wrong, wrongful