undecently
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]undecently (comparative more undecently, superlative most undecently)
- (obsolete) Unsuitably; improperly.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Philosophie hath done me the pleasure to judge, that so honorable an action, had been undecently [translating indecemment] placed in any other life, than in Catoes […].
- (obsolete) Scandalously; indecently.