impropriety

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(noun.)

ADJ

gross

constitutional, financial, procedural

The mayor resigned after investigators discovered serious financial impropriety in the city budget.

sexual

VERB + IMPROPRIETY

commit

The manager was fired after committing serious improprieties in handling the company's accounts.

accuse sb of

The mayor was accused of impropriety after accepting expensive gifts from contractors.

PHRASES

a suggestion of impropriety

The company faced serious questions after some suggestion of impropriety emerged in their financial records.

Definitions

noun

1

The condition of being improper.

If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...

To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]

2

An improper act.

Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an "appearance" of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.

3

Improper language.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an act of undue intimacy

noun — an indecent or improper act

indecency

noun — an improper demeanor

improperness

Antonyms

propriety
properness
correctitude

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If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...

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To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […

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Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a n

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Allegations of sexual impropriety were levelled against the headmaster.

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Tom seemed unconcerned with the impropriety of his question.

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You accuse me of impropriety?

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