indecorum

How to use indecorum in a sentence

• This indecorum excited angry curiosity, and drew down stern remonstrance.

  Lucretia, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• To reconcile to the virtuous spectator this indecorum, most calamitous woes are first depicted as the consequence of illicit love.

  The Stranger | August von Kotzebue

• "The indecorum, Miss Cartwright, has been already committed," said Rosalind.

  The Vicar of Wrexhill | Mrs [Frances] Trollope

• And this doubt is strengthened by the singular indecorum of his having addressed himself to Dr. Maltby.

  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) | Thomas De Quincey

• As a judge of the Supreme Court his incursion into the field of politics, unheralded, but not unprecedented, was an indecorum.

  The Life of Lyman Trumbull | Horace White