indecently

adverb

as in inappropriately

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Recent Examples of indecently He is accused of strangling and indecently assaulting a 30-year-old female co-worker, prosecutors said. — ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026 Caleb Crawford was incarcerated in 2016 after indecently touching his cousin, a 12-year-old girl at the time. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026 Like in a bombing, a tsunami or earthquake also makes the private suddenly, almost indecently, public. — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026 Another alleged victim said she was indecently assaulted in London in 2004. — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indecently
  1. inappropriately
  2. vulgarly
  3. unsuitably
  4. unbearably
  5. intolerably
  6. incorrectly
  7. reprehensibly
  8. awfully
Adverb
  • In many cases, boards and investors focused on ethical breaches, such as executives using company funds inappropriately or advancing the careers of romantic partners who reported to them.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Moore was convicted in 2013 in an unrelated incident of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old boy.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of inappropriately
Adverb
  • The movie vulgarly sexualizes youthful political ardor and, even more contemptibly, the very notion of racial justice.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Definition of vulgarly
Adverb
  • The official investigation found no fault with either aircraft but that three planes had occupied the same airspace, which was deemed to have been unsuitably monitored over the Kharkiv region.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Definition of unsuitably
Adverb
  • The Shining is a ghost story, an addiction story, and a family tragedy — all of it wound unbearably tight.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Wide-eyed children and tipsy fathers are spellbound by the playacting queens, unbearably luminous in their regalia.
    — Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of unbearably
Adverb
  • As detailed in the 2026 Clock Statement, the risks to civilization are intolerably high.
    — Daniel Holz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The data doesn’t show how many Texans were automatically re-enrolled — and who might unenroll if their premiums rose intolerably.
    — Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
Definition of intolerably
Adverb
  • A number of calls were either seemingly mishandled, called incorrectly or slanted in favor of one side or the other.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • According to the outlet, a military analyst using an AI chatbot to prepare an intelligence assessment of a Chinese vessel incorrectly concluded that the ship was transporting nuclear materials.
    — Keren Yarhi-Milo, Time, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of incorrectly
Adverb
  • It has been called the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Logan, who comes across as an even more fervent Barry Pepper, is the most convincing of the actors left to sell characters who say and do reprehensibly offensive things but turn out to be decent people.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Definition of reprehensibly
Adverb
  • Old, decaying fruit can get awfully messy, but maybe nature can take it from here, returning it to the soil or offering it up to the animals.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The company hopes to make diagnostic testing cheaper and more accessible — a mission that may sound awfully familiar to anyone who followed the rise and fall of Theranos.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of awfully

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“Indecently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecently. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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