Word Meanings - INDECOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke. Syn. -- Unbecoming; unseemly;
Additional info about word: INDECOROUS
Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke. Syn. -- Unbecoming; unseemly; unbefitting; rude; coarse; impolite; uncivil; ill-bred.
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- INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - ETIQUETTE
The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. The pompous etiquette to the - VIOLATOR
One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - IMPROPERATION
The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne - INDECOROUS
Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke. Syn. -- Unbecoming; unseemly; - STRUGGLER
One who struggles. - ATTEMPTER
1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper. - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - CONTRARY
Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical; - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - DEDECOROUS
Disgraceful; unbecoming. Bailey. - INTERBREED
To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like