in decent

adjective

offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar: indecent jokes; indecent language; indecent behavior.

not decent; unbecoming or unseemly: indecent haste.

Origin:
1555–65; < Latin indecent- (stem of indecēns) unseemly. See in-³, decent

Related forms

in·de·cent·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. distasteful, immodest, indecorous, indelicate; coarse, outrageous, rude, gross; obscene, filthy, lewd, licentious. See improper. 2. inappropriate.

Antonyms
2. appropriate; becoming.

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indecent (ɪnˈdiːs^ənt)

—*adj*
1.	offensive to standards of decency, esp in sexual matters
2.	unseemly or improper (esp in the phrase indecent haste)

in'decently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

indecent

1563, "unbecoming, in bad taste," from L. indecentem, from in- "not" + decentem (see decent). Sense of "offending against propriety" is from 1613. Indecent assault (1861) originally covered sexual assaults other than rape or intended rape, but by 1934 it was being used as a euphemism for "rape."

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