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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. ... show more

Roget 925: undueness etc. adj.; malum prohibitum [Lat.]; impropriety; illegality etc. 964.    falseness etc. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title; illegitimacy.    ... show more

Roget 24: disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity etc. 83; incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, mesalliance; jarring ... show more

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, ... show more

Dutch: vrijheid


Moby thesaurus: Babbittry, Gothicism, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, atrocity, bad taste, badness, barbarism, barbarousness, blunder, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, breach, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness ... show more.

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