indecorous

C2+ Topic:Register & Style
adj Freq #117564

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct

    Indecorous behavior.

  2. 2
    adj

    Improper, immodest, or indecent.

    Fact is that papers being locked away for 50-plus years is indecorous.

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Synonyms
1 adj · lacking propriety and good... indelicate
Opposites

Etymology

By surface analysis, in- + decorous; or, Latin indecōrus.

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