indecently

adverb

as in inappropriately

Related Words

Relevance

Dissimilar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of indecently 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
  • OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents inappropriately accessed sites for the Departments of Commerce and Education.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Amy Stilling Tanner claims her firing in April came in retaliation for sharing a surveillance video showing another employee acting inappropriately toward a student.
    — Eric Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 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
  • Her inconsistencies raised alarms for police, as the closed barn loft would have been unbearably hot that day to have visited voluntarily, per American Heritage.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • During the 2014 Gaza War, that lesson became unbearably personal.
    — Ayman M. Mohyeldin, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 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
  • Many Montanans who were financially eligible lost Medicaid coverage for technical reasons, such as incorrectly filling out paperwork — roughly 87,000, according to state data from two years ago.
    — Aaron Bolton, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
  • An earlier version of this story incorrectly named the horse ridden by Avery Kucan.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 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
  • The details on the new system are still months away, expected in February, which is getting awfully close to the start of the 2027-28 school year, when the changes are intended to be in effect.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • So Tesla was claiming to get awfully close to that, match its top speed of about 256 mph (412 km/h), and deliver 621 miles (1,000 km) of range for a tenth of the price.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of awfully

Browse Nearby Words

indecent
indecently
indecipherable
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Indecently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indecently. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
name tags
Words Named After People Quiz Find out who’s behind "leotard," "morphine," an...
See All