The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word INDECORUM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result INDECORUM
- Unseemly behaviour towards end of year over drink?
- Trendy style of art with strange unseemliness?
- Lack of civility around Christmas, female being ejected from meeting
- Home code broken, uncovering Trump’s vulgarity
- Bad taste of old booze after hot month
- Nice do spoilt by liquor having bad taste?
- Bad taste shown during last month by old eccentric?
- Popular sort of art leads to weird bad behaviour
- Impropriety in sport concealed by demonic manouevring
- In Christmas period, old eccentric may show bad taste
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The straight part
We know that "vulgarity" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vulgarity = indecorum.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does INDECORUM mean?
INDECORUM noun- Indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous