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impropriety
noun
1 impropriety
An improper demeanor.
synonym: improperness.
Roget 568:
solecism;
bad grammar,
false grammar,
faulty grammar;
slip of the pen,
slip of the tongue;
lapsus linguae [Lat.];
slipslop†;
bull;
barbarism,
impropriety.
Roget 647:
inexpedience,
inexpediency;
undesirableness,
undesirability
etc.
adj.;
discommodity†,
impropriety;
unfitness
etc.
(disagreement)
24;
inutility
etc.
645;
disadvantage.
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Roget 925:
undueness
etc.
adj.;
malum prohibitum [Lat.];
impropriety;
illegality
etc.
964.
falseness
etc.
adj.;
emptiness of title,
invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right,
disfranchisement,
forfeiture.
usurpation,
tort,
violation,
breach,
encroachment,
presumption,
assumption,
seizure;
stretch,
exaction,
imposition,
lion's share.
usurper,
pretender.
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Roget 24:
disagreement;
discord,
discordance;
dissonance,
dissidence,
discrepancy;
unconformity
etc.
83;
incongruity,
incongruence†;
discongruity†,
mesalliance;
jarring
etc.
v.;
dissension
etc.
713;
conflict
etc.
(opposition)
708;
bickering,
clashing,
misunderstanding,
wrangle.
disparity,
mismatch,
disproportion;
dissimilitude,
inequality;
disproportionateness
etc.
adj.†;
variance,
divergence,
repugnance.
unfitness
etc.
adj.;
inaptitude,
impropriety;
inapplicability
etc.
adj.;
inconsistency,
inconcinnity†;
irrelevancy
etc.
(irrelation)
10.
misjoining†,
misjoinder†;
syncretism†,
intrusion,
interference;
concordia discors [Lat.].
fish out of water.
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2 impropriety
The condition of being improper.
3 impropriety
An indecent or improper act.
synonym: indecency.
Dutch: onbehoorlijkheid, onbetamelijkheid, onfatsoenlijkheid, ongepastheid, onwelvoeglijkheid
4 impropriety
An act of undue intimacy.
synonyms: familiarity, indecorum, liberty.
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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Dutch: vrijheid
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