10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDECOROUSNESS»
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indecorousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
indecorousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Your Every-day Vocabulary: How to Enlarge it : Alphabetic List
(Adv. — indecorously.) In Scotland it was thought highly indecorous for a married
woman to dance. — Mary Somerville. indecorousness. — The quality of being
indecorous; violation of proprietary or good manners. "The indecorousness of his
...
Josephine Turck Baker,
1918
indecorousness. (in-DEK-er-es-nes) noun. decorous. (DEK-er-es) adjective
behaving with decorum; proper or dignified; seemly. infandous (in-FAN-des)
adjective too odious to be expressed; unspeakably horrible. 64 | THE BEST
WORDS.
Robert Hartwell Fiske,
2011
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A dictionary of English synonymes and synonymous or parallel ...
Unbecoming, improper, unseemly, gross, rude, coarse, indecent, uncivil, impolite.
Indecorousness, n. See Indecorum. Indecorum, п. I. Indecorousness, indecency,
impropriety, grossness, rudeness, incivility, impoliteness, violation of propriety, ...
Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison,
1915
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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
See indecorousness cultural exchanges, 134–36 Cynic criticism, 266 cynics, 26,
29 Dance (Lucian), 236 Darnton, Robert, xii Davis, Laurie, 251 Davis, Natalie
Zemon, xii debate, inconclusive, 239. See also rhetoric deception (apate), 49n46,
...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... vulgar; discourteous, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil; irregular, unlawful
idiom in bad form con becoming, courteous, decent, nice, proper, seemly;
conventional, formal ant decorous indecorousness n syn IMPROPRIETY 1,
incorrectness, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc,
1988
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Future Pasts : The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century ...
It would only have increased the sense of the indecorousness or impurity of my
manner had I suggested a diagnosis of those charges. I have not in any case
been moved to do so. But in the confidence that translation, in its overcoming of
its ...
Juliet Floyd Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University, Sanford Shieh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Wesleyan University,
2001
Margaret Lemon's indecorousness went right through her, like a stain ; her life,
her speech, the direction of her thoughts all showed it. But her indecorousness
was concealed by what her men friends called her "charm" ; in the same way as
her ...
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Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine ...
... but one that in other contexts would be regarded with hostility or with a sense
of indecorousness.”40 Prudence's return to New York, her embrace of
indecorousness, is not just a matter of taste but of survival: “New York was my
instrument ...
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Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British ...
Reynolds's allusion to the Fates in The Ladies Waldegrave has the same partly
tamed potential for indecorousness. Horace Walpole commissioned this picture
of his nieces, the three Ladies Waldegrave, and before it was finished he ...
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Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English ...
The English "Art of Love"
Ovid, Michael L. Stapleton,
2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDECOROUSNESS»
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indecorousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Roasted in Kashi
According to Anil Chaubey, it is precisely such subversion that separates Varanasi's local indecorousness from the seeming refinement of its ... «Hindu Business Line, Mar 15»
Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup I
... that sprawl across the wall with a deftly choreographed (but never elegant) indecorousness, seems to reflect, embrace, and recoil from the ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
Rotten company
... were embarrassed by his indecorousness, not the substance of what he said. It was — with apologies to that master of the political neologism ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 14»
Catholic Novelist, Commercial Folly
Dismayed by the “business sense” and indecorousness of the times—the advent of jeans bothered him enough to provide a satirical scene for ... «The American Conservative, Mar 14»
Misunderstanding Regarding Homosexuality
Homosexuality is indecorousness and error and those guilty will receive punishment. Our text said they were “working unseemliness” and they ... «GhanaWeb, Oct 13»
Dodgers, McCourt Ask Judge to Scuttle Lawsuit Over Stow's Injuries
In this era when spectator sections at soccer games are frequently battle zones, it would seem that a modicum of indecorousness at baseball ... «Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Sep 13»
Back To The Future At Le Cong Kieu Street Market
They were mostly of Asian sweethearts wearing sleeveless tops and short skirts, in posed angles that bordered on the verge of indecorousness ... «Sabotage Times, Apr 13»
In 'Skyfall,' James Bond fights irrelevance
What was special about these movies' ideas of international politics and sexual indecorousness 40 and 50 years ago feels standard now; some ... «Boston.com, Nov 12»
The Taming of Rahman
His music also set in vogue a breezy, decisive indecorousness that blithely violated the unwritten rules about film music having to express an ... «Tehelka, Feb 11»
How to: archive and back up photos
... ventriculi stereopticon daffle foilsman indecorousness adatis issuer proligerous honeymooner lantaca autolyzing isomorphic theatrophobia ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»