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as in unfitness
the quality or state of not being socially proper
the impropriety of the song that the campers sang for the visitors was embarrassing
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as in offence
a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark
such improprieties as asking people how much money they make
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as in wrongness
the quality or state of being unsuitable or unfitting
I see no impropriety in referring to certain anatomical parts by their standard names
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Recent Examples of impropriety
An exchange with Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, was typical of how Mr. Hegseth sought to refute allegations of impropriety.
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Wood, the university president, first revealed in a letter to students in August that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office was investigating the financial improprieties.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
Smith still was facing the death penalty when in March, Judge Wolfson removed the prosecutors from his case, a rare move amid damning evidence of witness tampering and improprieties.
—Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the 2020 election case last month in a 2-1 decision that her romance with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to a significant appearance of impropriety.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
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Helene Cooper, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Wood, the university president, first revealed in a letter to students in August that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office was investigating the financial improprieties.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
Smith still was facing the death penalty when in March, Judge Wolfson removed the prosecutors from his case, a rare move amid damning evidence of witness tampering and improprieties.
—Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Georgia’s Court of Appeals disqualified Willis and her office from the 2020 election case last month in a 2-1 decision that her romance with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to a significant appearance of impropriety.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impropriety
Noun
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This makes people more forgiving when leaders make mistakes.—
Tendayi Viki,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Piastri, who made a mistake that cost him the win at the Australian GP last week, capitalized on clean air in Shanghai to steadily build his advantage as the race evolved into a strategic battle between one and two-stop strategies.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 2025
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The disrespect of Shedeur Sanders has reached absurd levels.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
9 Mar. 2025
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My concerns have only doubled since the hearing, at which two academics from the University of Connecticut’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Civic Engagement and Public Policy were treated with suspicion and sidelong disrespect by certain legislators.—
Julio Fuentes,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2025
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After coalescing with ultranationalists to establish the nation's furthest right government in late 2022, the former special forces commando who had already become Israel's longest serving premier largely deflected criticism over the intelligence blunder of October 7, 2023.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Yet, the Trump White House and leading Republicans in Congress have tried mightily to put a positive spin on the colossal blunder, even as Democrats pounced on it.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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The world watched in utter shock as Tiger’s pristine image unraveled amid revelations of marital indiscretions.—
Mike Bianchi,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Mar. 2025
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The military’s strict code of conduct Hegseth’s indiscretions could impede his ability to lead by example, said the chief executive officer of the nation’s largest group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.—
Tara Copp,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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All the results were just outside margins of error.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Unlike previous quantum attempts plagued by instability, Majorana 1 uses a new class of qubits resistant to errors, making scalable quantum computing a reality.—
Sarah Choudhary,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.—
Colin Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2022
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And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once.—
Ben Zimmer,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2017
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“Impropriety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impropriety. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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