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Six example sentences with indecorous, each labelled with its topic.
The comedy's indecorous wedding scene, with the best man shouting over the vows, made half the audience wince.
Movies
Members considered it indecorous to applaud during a memorial session, so the chamber stayed silent when the tribute ended.
Politics
Guides warn that pointing your feet toward the shrine is indecorous, however innocent the gesture seems to a visitor.
Travel
Cheering between the movements of a symphony is considered indecorous, though the players themselves rarely mind.
Music
The judge warned that shouting from the gallery was indecorous and would empty the courtroom on the next outburst.
Law
Checking a phone during the client's toast was indecorous enough to cost the junior partner her seat at the next dinner.
Business
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