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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct;
- Example: "indecorous behavior"
[syn: indecorous, indelicate]

2. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society;
- Example: "was buried with indecent haste"
- Example: "indecorous behavior"
- Example: "language unbecoming to a lady"
- Example: "unseemly to use profanity"
- Example: "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"
[syn: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indecorous adj 1: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior" [syn: indecorous, 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, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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