indecorum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   lack of proper behavior, manners, or good taste; impropriety

   The committee was embarrassed by the indecorum of shouting during the memorial.

2. 2
   noun

   an act or instance of improper or unseemly behavior

   Wearing muddy boots into the chapel was regarded as an indecorum.

A learned borrowing from Latin indecorum, the neuter of indecorus ("unseemly, improper"), formed from in- ("not") + decorus ("fitting, becoming"). It is the direct negative counterpart of decorum.

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