impropriety
11impropriety — [[t]ɪ̱mprəpra͟ɪɪti[/t]] improprieties N VAR Impropriety is improper behaviour. [FORMAL] He resigned amid allegations of financial impropriety …
12impropriety — im|pro|pri|e|ty [ˌımprəˈpraııti] n plural improprieties [U and C] formal behaviour or an action that is wrong or unacceptable according to moral, social, or professional standards ▪ Accusations of impropriety were made against the company s… …
13impropriety — im|pro|pri|e|ty [ ,ımprə praıəti ] noun count or uncount FORMAL behavior that is not honest, professional, or socially acceptable: Accusations of impropriety were made against senior government officials …
14impropriety — noun formal (C) behaviour or a particular action that is unacceptable according to moral, social, or professional standards: Accusations of impropriety were made against the company s directors …
15impropriety — noun 1) a suggestion of impropriety Syn: wrongdoing, misconduct, dishonesty, corruption, unscrupulousness, unprofessionalism, irregularity; unseemliness, indecorousness, indelicacy, indecency, immorality 2) fiscal improprieties Syn …
16impropriety — noun (plural ties) Etymology: French or Late Latin; French impropriété, from Late Latin improprietat , improprietas, from Latin improprius Date: 1607 1. an improper or indecorous act or remark; especially an unacceptable use of a word or of… …
17impropriety — /im preuh pruy i tee/, n., pl. improprieties for 4, 5. 1. the quality or condition of being improper; incorrectness. 2. inappropriateness; unsuitableness. 3. unseemliness; indecorousness. 4. an erroneous or unsuitable expression, act, etc. 5. an… …
18impropriety — noun a) The condition of being improper. b) An improper act …
19impropriety — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, atrocity, bad taste, badness, barbarism, barbarousness, blunder, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, breach, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness,… …
20impropriety — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. misbehavior, vulgarity, immodesty; bad manners, indecorum; unfitness, unsuitability. See inexpedience, disagreement, discourtesy. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. unseemliness, incongruity, indecency, blunder; …
