Sentence examples for would be indecent from inspiring English sources

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He thought it would be indecent to ask God to help him.

He refused to go into more detail about the conversations he had had, saying it would be "indecent".

Although it thinks burning granny especially to warm radiators would be indecent and illegal, cremation is a respectful and hygienic disposal of bodies.

Yet the emotions that such losses stir can't be dismissed quite so blithely — talking to Parisian friends, I found they shared my sense of something that it would be indecent to call grief but inadequate to call sadness.

I began to wonder if, for the English, death was either a private matter which would be indecent or even embarrassing to refer to, or that they had no idea what to say.

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But a day or two later, Mr. Ulvaeus found himself asking: "Can we really go on with this?" In other words, would it be indecent to regale a city in mourning with the exuberant parade of disco-era Swedish-made English-language pop songs that is "Mamma Mia!"? Halfway around the world, the star of this impending Broadway production was asking herself the same question.

If there's something vaguely indecent about the new GAA season beginning before St Brigid's Day, many might've hoped that Dublin wouldn't also be indecent enough to look invincible so early in the year.

It emphasized Mr. Carlin's "repetitive, deliberate use" of swear words and left open the question of whether "an occasional expletive" would be considered indecent.

Annie Thébaud-Mony, a semiretired researcher at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research INSERMM), says it would be "almost indecent" to accept the honor while there is "a very big indifference … to the death of workers and to environmental damage".

Such promptness would be almost indecent!

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