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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
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.
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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
Trump's legal team has repeatedly accused her of impropriety and cast the indictment against him as tainted because of the relationship, which Willis publicly acknowledged.
—April Rubin, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
That provision was meant to deter frivolous objections that have been raised by members of both parties over the years with little evidence to back up claims of impropriety in the election or the electoral tabulation.
—Carl Hulse, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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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
Trump's legal team has repeatedly accused her of impropriety and cast the indictment against him as tainted because of the relationship, which Willis publicly acknowledged.
—April Rubin, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
That provision was meant to deter frivolous objections that have been raised by members of both parties over the years with little evidence to back up claims of impropriety in the election or the electoral tabulation.
—Carl Hulse, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impropriety
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Expert instructors will teach you how to get started, practical uses, tips for effective prompt-writing, and mistakes to avoid.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2025
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Don’t act too quickly though, because using your oven’s self-cleaning function could be a huge mistake.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2025
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No disrespect to Sir Paul McCartney, but Dwayne Carter Jr. (a.k.a. Lil Wayne) clearly had the superior musical medley of the night.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Public disrespect should be met with the most immediate public apology through the same medium.—
Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Just like when Trump recently helped legitimize Maduro by sending White House special envoy Richard Grenell to meet with the Venezuelan dictator and pose in smiling pictures with him, Trump’s de facto abandonment of pro-democracy groups in the hemisphere is a major blunder.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a very big early blunder.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Given the political indiscretions and untrustworthy reputation of his then-opponent James G. Blaine, Cleveland was still successfully elected to the White House, becoming the 22nd president and the first Democrat elected after the Civil War.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Arsenal’s manager kept a list of Aubameyang’s indiscretions — many of them related to punctuality — and, eventually, the charge sheet was too long.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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The intended answer, 88 ounces, indicated that a programming or grading error had been made after the child had handed the paper over.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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For results based on this sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
6 Feb. 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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