Indecorous

Definitions: Indecorous

Indecorous

Adjective

1. Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior".

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".

Date "indecorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Indecorous \In`de*co"rous\, adjective. [Latin expression indecorous. See In- not, and Decorous.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Indecorous

Synonyms: indecent (adj), indelicate (adj), unbecoming (adj), uncomely (adj), unseemly (adj), untoward (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: decorous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impurity	Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.
Vice	Unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
Vulgarity	Coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful; (ugly).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indecorous

English words defined with "indecorous": Unhandsome. (references)

Etymologies containing "indecorous": indecorum. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Indecorous Chain of Command: Chronicle of Sexual Harrassment in the Military (reference) Jack Juggler and the emperor's whore : seven tall tales linked together for an indecorous toy theatre (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Indecorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indecorous" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	8	124,375

Expression using "indecorous": indecorous room. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "indecorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i papërshtatshëm (ill timed, ill-placed, ill-sorted, ill-suited, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, ineligible, inept, infelicitous, out of place, reject, unadaptable, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, undue, unequal, unfavorable, unfavourable, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuited, unusable, wrong), i pahijshëm (bad, dirty, fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, obscene, unbecoming, unchristian, unseemly, wry). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مهذب (bad form, common, impolite, rude, uncivil, unkempt, unrefined), ‏غير محتشم (curiously, improper, indecent, indelicate, salty, suggestive), ‏غير صحيح (erroneous, improper, incorrect, inexact, mistaken, unchecked, unsound, untrue, untruthful). (various references)

Bulgarian		некоректен (incorrect), неблагоприличен (indecent, unbefitting), неподобаващ (indecent, unmeet, wrong). (various references)

Czech		neslušný (discourteous, immodest, impolite, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, misbecoming, obscene, rude, unbecoming, uncivil, uncouth, unpresentable, unseemly, unsuitable). (various references)

Farsi		ناصحیح (Bad, Unjust, Unsound, Wrong), بی نزاکت (Boorish, Discourteous, Indelicate, Unceremonious), بی جا (Unseasonable), بی ادب (Barbaric, Brusque, Coarse, Discourteous, Impolite, Irrespective, Irreverent, Lowbrow, Lowly, Plebeian, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Unmannered, Unmennerly). (various references)

French		incorrect (incorrect, inexact), inconvenant (indecent), peu convenable. (various references)

German		unschicklich (improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unfittingly, unseemly). (various references)

Greek		άκοσμοσ (improper), άσεμνοσ (immodest, immoral, indecent, obscene, racy, unchaste), απρεπήσ (graceless, impolitic, improper, indecent, inept, risque, scabrous, tactless, unbecoming, uncalled for, undue, unseemly). (various references)

Hebrew		לא יא�" (a bit off, improper, indelicate, unseemly), לא צ� וע (immodest, indecent), לא � מוסי. (various references)

Hungarian		illetlen (fie-fie, improper, indecent, misbecoming, rank, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unseemly), ízléstelen (improper, naff, tasteless, tawdry). (various references)

Italian		indecoroso (disreputable, unbecoming, unseemly). (various references)

Manx		meeveasagh (badly behaved, indelicate, mannerless, uncivil). (various references)

Pig Latin		indecorousay

Portuguese		indecoroso (crude, shocking, unbecoming, unbefitting, unclean, unseemly, unworthy), indecomponível, indecente (bawdy, indecent, nasty, obscene, ribald, risky, scurrilous, unseemly). (various references)

Romanian		necuviincios (brazen, disrespectful, disrespectfully, foul, graceless, indecent, naughty, obscenely, scabrous, unbecoming, uncomely), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), deplasat (improper, inapposite, incongruously, inept, inopportune, out of place, unbecoming, uncalled for, unseasonable). (various references)

Russian		неприличный (fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, nasty, naughty, obscene, salt, spicy, unbecoming, unrepeatable), нарушающий приличия. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neprikladan (inappropriate, infelicitous, suit: not suited to, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, undue, unhappy, unseemly, unsuitable), nedoličan (indecent, unbecoming, unbeseeming). (various references)

Spanish		indecoroso (improper, indelicate). (various references)

Swedish		otillständig, otillbörlig (improper, undue, unwarranted), opassande (improper, improperly, inappropriate, inapt, indecent, inept, off color, off colour, out of order, unbecoming, unfitting, unmentionable, unseemly). (various references)

Turkish		uygunsuz (derogatory, illegitimate, impolitic, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indelicate, ineligible, inexpedient, infelicitous, malapropos, near the knuckle, obnoxious, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unchristian, uncomely, unhandsome, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward, wrong), topluma ters düşen, ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame). (various references)

Ukranian		недобропристойний. (various references)

Vietnamese		không phải phép (improper), không đúng mực, không đứng đắn; khiếm nhã, bất lịch s. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indecorous": indecorously, indecorousness, indecorousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Indecorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indecrous, undesirous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indecorous" (pronounced 'In`de*co"rous'): Anomaloflorous, Anurous, Aurous, Canorous, Chlorous, Cirrous, Decorous, Durous, Eurhipidurous, ferrous, Garous, Gastrurous, Geminiflorous, Hypochlorous, Insonorous, Irous, leprous, Liguliflorous, Macrurous, mercurous, Multiflorous, Pellagrous, Radiciflorous, Ramiflorous, Sclerous, serous, Serrous, sonorous, Squarrous, Subserous, susurrous, Thysanurous, Uniflorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: coinsured, decurions.
	-2 letters: coinsure, condores, consider, corneous, corodies, crunodes, decorous, decurion, dourines, idoneous, inducers, sourdine.
	-3 letters: cinders, codeins, coenuri, coiners, condoes, condors, conoids, cordons, coursed, cronies, crooned, cruised, crunode, dineros, discern, diurons, dourine, durions, enduros, erosion, incudes, incused, indoors, indorse, inducer, induces, insured, neuroid, onerous, orceins, ordines, oroides, recoins, rescind, resound, rosined, scorned.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-o-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: indecorously, overdiscount.
	+3 letters: counterpoised, mispronounced, nondisclosure, overdiscounts, reproductions, semiconductor.
	+4 letters: conquistadores, deconstruction, indecorousness, nondisclosures, overdiscounted, overeducations, preproductions, pseudoscorpion, ribonucleoside, semiconductors.
	+5 letters: boustrophedonic, countermelodies, deconstructions, echinodermatous, overdiscounting, overproductions, photoreductions, pseudoscorpions, reintroductions, ribonucleosides, ribonucleotides.
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