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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
The feedback that might customarily be provided by a fellow human is bound to be muddled with all kinds of feckless improprieties.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Two years prior, an audit found that CBS had engaged in improprieties costing Sony roughly $1.1 million, which resulted in a settlement.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies are investigating financial improprieties at the station, a spokesperson confirmed this month.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 21 Jan. 2025
House Democrats may be looking to take a similar form of recourse after the Trump administration’s Saturday announcement left concerns of impropriety.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Apr. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Two years prior, an audit found that CBS had engaged in improprieties costing Sony roughly $1.1 million, which resulted in a settlement.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies are investigating financial improprieties at the station, a spokesperson confirmed this month.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 21 Jan. 2025
House Democrats may be looking to take a similar form of recourse after the Trump administration’s Saturday announcement left concerns of impropriety.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impropriety
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Choosing smoothies low in protein and fiber, adding sugary ingredients to your smoothie, and using low-calorie smoothies as meal replacements are just some of the smoothie mistakes that could be sabotaging your weight loss efforts.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
3 June 2025
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The teenager from India, under pressure throughout much of the game, capitalized on a rare mistake from the Norwegian veteran to seize victory.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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No disrespect to Webb either, but the Dodgers-Giants rivalry demands that this dramatic pennant race not end without the teams facing each other.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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Rarely are signs of disrespect and arrogance brushed aside — especially if that player doesn’t possess elite skills, which most NFL talent evaluators agree, young Sanders does not.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Viewers speculated whether this was a blunder, power play or something else.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
27 May 2025
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Many of the nation’s biggest military blunders occurred because there wasn’t enough diversity in the armed forces.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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And any Catholic who has made a confession to a priest knows that what is said in confession stays in confession, unlike a problematic yet pivotal indiscretion that happens in the movie.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2025
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Swiatek is also someone who comes across as eager to please, and her discomfort at the indiscretion, and the resulting perceptions of her, has been obvious.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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Only one major-league third baseman, the San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado, has more errors than Muncy’s eight through his first 49 games of the season.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
27 May 2025
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The poll of 1,136 Democrats carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.89 percentage points.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 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 7 Jun. 2025.
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