impropriety

impropriety
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, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, criminality, crudeness, cumbrousness, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, deviance, deviancy, discourtesy, disentitlement, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, dysphemism, empty claim, empty title, enormity, erroneousness, error, evil, excess, failure, false claim, falseness, falsity, fault, faux pas, felony, frowned-upon behavior, gaffe, gaucherie, genocide, gracelessness, grossness, guilty act, harshness, heaviness, heavy sin, high camp, hooliganism, horseplay, ill-balanced sentences, illegality, immodesty, immorality, imprecision, improperness, impurity, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incompatibility, inconcinnity, incongruity, incongruousness, inconvenience, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, inequitableness, inequity, inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexpiable sin, infelicity, infraction, iniquitousness, iniquity, injury, injustice, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalid claim, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapse, lasciviousness, lateness, leadenness, lewdness, localism, low camp, maladjustment, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mesalliance, minor wrong, misalliance, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, mistake, mortal sin, naughtiness, no claim, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, rudeness, ruffianism, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slang, slip, slipshod construction, stiltedness, suggestiveness, taboo word, tastelessness, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undeservedness, undeservingness, undueness, unentitledness, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unmeritedness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unutterable sin, unwieldiness, vandalism, venial sin, vice, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • impropriety — im‧pro‧pri‧e‧ty [ˌɪmprəˈpraɪti] noun improprieties PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] formal behaviour that is unacceptable according to moral or professional standards: • He faced allegations of impropriety over the insider trading scandal. •… …   Financial and business terms

  • Impropriety — Im pro*pri e*ty, n.; pl. {Improprieties}. [L. improprietas; cf. F. impropri[ e]t[ e]. See {Improper}.] 1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • impropriety — I noun bad taste, improper action, improper behavior, imprudence, inappropriate behavior, inappropriateness, incongruousness, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscretion, inelegance, inexpedience, inexpediency,… …   Law dictionary

  • impropriety — (n.) 1610s, quality or fact of being improper, from Fr. impropriété (16c.), from L. improprietas, from improprius (see IMPROPER (Cf. improper)). As improper thing, 1670s …   Etymology dictionary

  • impropriety — [n] bad taste, mistake barbarism, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, goof*, immodesty, impudence, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, rudeness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity;… …   New thesaurus

  • impropriety — ► NOUN (pl. improprieties) ▪ improper behaviour or character …   English terms dictionary

  • impropriety — [im΄prō prī′ə tē] n. pl. improprieties [< MFr impropriété (or) < L improprietas: see IN 2 & PROPRIETY] 1. the quality of being improper 2. improper action or behavior 3. an improper or unacceptable use of a word or phrase (Ex.: “borrow” for …   English World dictionary

  • impropriety — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ financial, procedural (BrE, law), sexual ▪ alleged VERB + IMPROPRIETY ▪ commit ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • impropriety — UK [ˌɪmprəˈpraɪətɪ] / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms impropriety : singular impropriety plural improprieties formal behaviour that is not honest, professional, or socially acceptable Accusations of impropriety were made against senior …   English dictionary

  • impropriety — n. crass impropriety * * * [ˌɪmprə praɪətɪ] crass impropriety …   Combinatory dictionary

  • impropriety — [[t]ɪ̱mprəpra͟ɪɪti[/t]] improprieties N VAR Impropriety is improper behaviour. [FORMAL] He resigned amid allegations of financial impropriety …   English dictionary

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