What's the difference between indecorous and uncomely?

Indecorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But now the precocious five-year-old has met his match in the form of Indonesian regulators, who have declared his antics as “borderline pornography” and warned broadcasters to censor images of his bare buttocks, scantily clad women and other indecorous scenes.
  • (2) The BBC's economics editor hadn't done anything nearly so indecorous, you understand.

Uncomely


Definition:

  • (a.) Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What's more, nowadays historians are too numerous and too well trained to let myths pass uncommented on.
  • (2) It is completely nonsensical,” says Kellerhoff, “to forbid an annotated, scientifically critical edition, while uncommented versions – there are at least 20 German-language ones alone – are available on the internet to anyone who wants to find them.” British Jews give wary approval to the return of Hitler’s Mein Kampf Read more The historians plugged on regardless, convinced, according to IfZ director Andreas Wirsching, of the necessity of an annotated edition, “without which I am completely at the mercy of this concoction of lies, half-truths and propaganda”.

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