What's the difference between indecorous and unproper?

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.

Unproper


Definition:

  • (a.) Not proper or peculiar; improper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hospital death occurred in one patient with unproperly increased pulmonary blood flow by central shunt.
  • (2) For continuation of the DNA synthesis after an incorrect deoxynucleotide addition, replicase must take two more mistakes in succession: to retain the incorrect nucleotide and to join the next one to this unproperly arranged primer.
  • (3) Vomiting was most commonly seen side-effect in young children, thus suggesting that either dose, or the chemical form of the drug for this group of age was unproper.
  • (4) The latter, according to the authors, resulted from an incomplete or unproper interpretation of diseases symptoms influenced by several objective factors.
  • (5) To name it pneumocytoma would be unproper and a possibility of vascular tumorous character could not based on respectable analogies.
  • (6) The main causes of suicidal attempts were the unproper familial and educational environment, the lack of close relations with members of family, the lack of adequate reference patterns of social roles, the lowered resistance against difficult situations and the tendency to impulsive actions in a part of subjects studied conditioned biologically.
  • (7) However, unproper sampling in excessively atrophic areas and structural "myogenic" changes can made the bioptic diagnosis difficult or impossible.
  • (8) The increase of the activity of alkaline phosphatase in 9 months old experimental sheep is the result of disturbances in Calcium-Phosphorus balance due to unproper mineral feeding.

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