This is that indecorum, which is explained so much at large by Cicero in his Offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals] Reference

Asking leave to continue speaking after indecorum A.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Dunstan and his associates from the imputation of great indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference

The Proctor in a loud voice demanded who had committed this indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference

There was not half the hurry and indecorum that you so often see in an American boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Only to be out at elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be thread-bare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

They stood before us as perfectly unconscious of any indecorum as we could be with our clothes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

His very presence and face puts vice out of countenance, and makes it an indecorum in a vicious man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Japanese women have their own gatherings, where gossip and chit-chat, marked by a truly Oriental indecorum of speech, are the staple of talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference

Our first Greek play had been costumed by the professional costumer, with unforgetable results of comicality and indecorum: the second, the Trachiniae, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference

The dress — a short kilt of calabash fibre — rather set off than concealed their charms, and though destitute of petticoat they were wholly unconscious of indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

Your host would blush to point out to you the indecorum of your conduct; and the laws of hospitality oblige him to supply the every want of a guest, even though he be a detenu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

The audacity of facts, by sheer improbability or indecorum, rises to heights of “situation” forbidden to art, unless they are softened, cleansed, and purified by the writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

This indecorum excited angry curiosity, and drew down stern remonstrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia — Complete] Reference

I will remark here -- if it is not an indecorum -- that the welcome which an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Following the Equator] Reference

Madam thought far too much of the proprieties of life to commit such an indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference

She felt the indecorum of the posture he had condescended to take, and was shocked.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simple Story] Reference

The very sight of him would goad him on to commit some indecorum before the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale] Reference

Madame S---- very shrewdly whispered in my ear, that the indecorum was in the remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.] Reference

Neither was the representation of plays on Sundays at this time regarded as an indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference

And this doubt is strengthened by the singular indecorum of his having addressed himself to Dr. Maltby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference

To apply the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character savoured of a literary indecorum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference

The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference

To reconcile to the virtuous spectator this indecorum, most calamitous woes are first depicted as the consequence of illicit love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stranger A Drama, in Five Acts] Reference

All but these two simpler creatures were abashed at the indecorum of suggesting in words the commonplaces of the theatre and of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

Sainte-Beuve gracefully describes as 'an immortal act of indecency,' it is yet an indecorum of a sort more tolerable in the French than in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889] Reference

This, he must be allowed to say, was an indecorum he had not expected; and he was convinced the Lords of the Admiralty had given no orders to that effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference

The stately reserve, the personal dignity and decency of manners which distinguished the Prince, contrasted favourably with the gabble and indecorum of his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660] Reference

We have had other unsuccessful generals, but not one of them has ever been tempted into the indecorum of endeavoring to turn a defeat in the field to political advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference

He kicked off his dusty boots with an indecorum quite unusual to him, and hunted up his slippers out of the adjoining room with perhaps an unnecessary amount of noise and haste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perpetual Curate] Reference