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improprieties

improprieties is the plural of impropriety.

Meaning of impropriety

Noun

impropriety (countable and uncountable, plural improprieties)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being improper.
    • If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages...
  2. (countable) 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...1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 421
  3. Improper language.

Questions about improprieties

What is improprieties the plural of?
Improprieties is the plural of impropriety.

Words near improprieties in the dictionary

  1. impropriation
  2. impropriations
  3. impropriator
  4. impropriators
  5. impropriatrix
  6. improprieties
  7. impropriety
  8. impros
  9. improsperity
  10. improsperous
  11. improsulfan

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