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Answer for the clue "Not appropriate ", 8 letters:
indecent

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Word definitions for indecent in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 offensive to good taste 2 not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sexual/indecent assault ▪ Women who have suffered serious sexual assault are offered support and counselling. indecent assault indecent exposure COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN assault ▪ First, where the conduct ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: ...

Usage examples of indecent.

And the foulest babbler of them all, hot with the exercise of the indecent gestures wherewith he illustrated his filthy tale, had slunk off like a pariah dog.

I ran to her and begged her to give me the indecent picture I had so foolishly left about.

Her violent contortions over the tabouret, needless to say, showed off the most secret parts of her nubile young body in the most lascivious way, and Maude righteously exhorted Charlene to take her birching humbly and not be such an indecent minx, advice which poor Charlene could not have heeded at this point, much less count off the strokes.

Lord pretended that I could not play that instrument without assuming an indecent position.

She put on her clothes in seeming oblivion that I was a man, but without shewing any sights that could be called indecent.

But as they in the earlier times created no indecent ideas, and were worn alike by the most innocent youths and virtuous women, it will be far wiser for us to seek to penetrate their meaning.

They would consider it indecent to turn a Romany child over to a Gorgio, even a half-blood like me.

At this the young scoundrel proceeded to shew me his sex, but in such an indecent fashion that his sister, who was sitting on my knee, burst out laughing and took refuge with her mother, who was sitting at the other end of the room in gratitude for the good supper I had given her.

I begged him to let me see them, to which he replied severely that the king himself would not have dared to express such indecent curiosity.

Mainwaring showed us a couple of very fine old netsukes, abominably indecent, which he meant to bring past the customs in his pocket.

The people sympathized in their grief, repented of their own fury, and detested the indecent joy of Rienzi, who visited the spot where these illustrious victims had fallen.

In Madrid, and possibly all over Spain, a gentleman who takes a lady to a private room in an inn must expect to have a servant in the room the whole of the time, that he may be able to swear that the couple took no indecent liberties with each other.

Yam and could not help feeling he looked indecent with all those silver twiddly works showing.

Indeed such rattle as he rated it, Is it not strange, and passing precedent, That the illustrious chief of Government Should have uprisen with such indecent speed And strenuously replied?

He charged malfeasance, he charged treason, murder, blackmail, piracy, simony, forgery, kidnapping, barratry, attempted rape, mental cruelty, indecent exposure, and subornation of perjury.