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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for impropriety
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impropriety
Noun
  • Playing in the first group, Wong birdied the second hole and made up for his lone mistake (a bogey on No. 3) with birdies at seven and 11 to maintain a slim lead.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • On one hand, speed always enables Chinese players to adapt faster and, if necessary, correct mistakes faster.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • But the internal investigation promised by department leaders — a probe of what accounted for the delays and blunders — seemed to go nowhere.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • The show’s main blunder is that instead of unpacking the various angles of the mob bosses’ corruption, random side stories start popping up.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.
    Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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 29 May. 2025.

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