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Significados de indecorous en inglés

Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.

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Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct.

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Examples for "indelicate"
Examples for "indelicate"
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Your over delicate ladies are the most indelicate people in the world.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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The French are an indelicate people; they will spit upon any place.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Remaining in the room while a lady was examined was obviously indelicate.
Shadows in Bronze
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None of your swaggerers, and nothing at all indelicate in her motions.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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In terms most indelicate and, frankly, alarming for any father to hear.
Imprudence
Uso de indecorous en inglés
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At the funeral of Mademoiselle de Conde, a very indecorous incident happened.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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This method of keeping grounds is comparatively inexpensive, therefore it is indecorous.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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She knew she was being indecorous, and she cared not a whit.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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We saw nothing indecorous, heard no vile language, and witnessed no violence.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
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The book is in every way an injurious and indecorous one.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
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The indecorous creature was breathing as loudly as Mr. Gilman himself.
The Lion's Share
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Her cropped blond hair seemed indecorous somehow, out of keeping with her grief.
Lowboy
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Thea, and all Thea's ways and friends, seemed indecorous to Anna.
The Song of the Lark
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There was nothing indecorous about such an arrangement; merely a concession to economic pressure.
The Street of Seven Stars
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Westerners found married, compulsorily bearded clergy alarming and the Slavonic language indecorous in church.
1492 the year our world began
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Presently they turned to canzons of a more indecorous nature.
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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Their marked disapproval made our new departure seem almost indecorous.
Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
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Madame, you must know this is highly disorderly and indecorous.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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To be angry on such a subject would be futile, foolish, and almost indecorous.
The Small House at Allington
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To wed immediately would be improper-wouldbe indecorous-wouldbe outre.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
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Besides, to make such an avowal to a husband, I considered as somewhat indecorous.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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