Sentence examples for lacking in decorum from inspiring English sources
The Irish were redoubtable duellists, but so lacking in decorum when potting each other that, in 1777, delegates from five counties assembled to hammer out the Irish Code Duello.
THEY'RE noticeably lacking in the kind of decorum that teachers are supposed to have.
There's no time for tea at the Doughnut Plant on Grand Street downtown, where the focus is on freshness and taste (two things occasionally lacking in Lady Mendl's scones), not décor and decorum.
Shakespeare lacked decorum, in Dryden's view, largely because he had written for an ignorant age and poorly educated audiences.
Many of his contemporaries thought he lacked the decorum required in a gentleman, let alone a leading aristocrat.
Further, lacking decorum and discipline, Trump exhibits only a dim understanding of domestic and foreign relations.
The letter, which lacks the decorum traditionally found in such political correspondence, evokes the scrappy, street-fighting tone of Mr. Paladino's primary campaign, which galvanized conservative crowds and Tea Party affiliates but remains untested among moderate voters.
Rivers lacked decorum, which is a fancy way to say she believed in cursing in public.
Jan Steen's painting mirrors Dutch society of his day, which turns out not much different from our own not only in its lack of decorum and temperance but also in its lax domesticity.
His answer is a measure in decorum.
