indecentlyadv.
/ɪnˈdiːsəntli/ In an indecent manner; unbecomingly, indelicately, immodestly.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adverb]
unhonestlyc1380
uncomelya1400
unseemlya1400
uncomelilyc1420
unseemlily1483
indecently1589
undecently1589
grossly1600
unseemingly1619
unbeseeming1645
widely1665
indelicately1800
indecorously1818
unbefittingly1871
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adverb]
wrongc1175
unworthlyc1200
unkindly?c1225
ungraithlya1300
wrongly1303
unconablya1340
unworthily1377
ungoodlyc1380
uncovenablya1382
improperly1390
falsely1393
unduly1399
unseemlya1400
unsittinglyc1412
unorderly1471
induly1483
unseemlily1483
ungainlya1500
uncomely?1518
unmeetly1533
unconveniently1538
wrongfully?1549
uncomelily1561
undecently1563
indecently1589
unproperly1604
unbeseemingly1617
viciously1617
unseemingly1619
misbecominglya1625
unbeseeming1645
unbecomingly1653
invalidly1705
naughty1892
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > with impropriety
unkindlyc1300
ungoodlyc1380
unhonestlyc1380
indecently1589
undecently1589
grossly1600
unproperly1604
widely1665
like a whore at a christening1706
indelicately1800
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adverb]
unhonestly1382
indecently1589
greasily1598
juicily1969
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 220 If they fall out decently..all is well, if indecently, and to the eares and myndes misliking..all is amisse.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 161 in Justice Vindicated Let there be no vain speech, nor anything indecently done.
a1745 J. Swift To Stella in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 168 When indecently I rave, When out my brutish passions break.
1771 J. W. Fletcher Second Check Antinom. 63 I..enquired into the cause of the dissatisfaction he had so indecently expressed.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. vii. 65 A stout fellow-passenger..kept him awake by snoring indecently.
1961 Bible (New Eng.) Rom. i. 27 Males behave indecently with males.
1970 Times 8 Jan. 2/8 As she walked along a lonely path..a boy threw her to the ground, indecently assaulted her and stabbed her.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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