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 manners.
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2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or
an inaccurate use of language.
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But every language has likewise its improprieties
and absurdities. --Johnson.
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Many gross improprieties, however authorized by
practice, ought to be discarded. --Swift.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impropriety
n 1: an improper demeanor [syn: improperness] [ant: propriety,
propriety]
2: an indecent or improper act [syn: indecency]
3: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, indecorum, liberty]
WordNet (r) 2.0
234 Moby Thesaurus words for "impropriety":
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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0
familiarity, improperness, indecency, indecorum, liberty
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