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Definition of "indecorously" [in•de•co•rous•ly]

  • Not decorous. (adverb)
  • Conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste. (adverb)

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Use "indecorously" in a sentence
  • "A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show."
  • "Nancy then blew her nose indecorously into the water and stretched out her hands to me."
  • "This is the unstable, mob-minded mass, which sits on the fence, ever ready to fall this side or that and indecorously clamber back again; which puts a Democratic administration into office one election, and a"
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