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  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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  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.
  
     2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or
        an inaccurate use of language.
  
              But every language has likewise its improprieties
              and absurdities.                      --Johnson.
  
              Many gross improprieties, however authorized by
              practice, ought to be discarded.      --Swift.

  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]

  impropriety
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The condition of being improper.
     2 (lb en countable) An improper act.

  impropriety
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The condition of being improper.
     2 (lb en countable) An improper act.

  impropriety
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The condition of being improper.
     2 (lb en countable) An improper act.

  impropriety
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) The condition of being improper.
     2 (lb en countable) An improper act.

  impropriety
     Englanti n.
     sopimattomuus, säädyttömyys

  impropriety
     Engelska n.
     oanständighet

  Impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  الخطأ

  impropriety //ˌɪm.prəˈpraɪ.ɪ.ti// 
  1. непристоен език
  Improper language
  2. неуместност
  being improper

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/ 
  nepřístojnost

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  nevhodnost

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  Unanständigkeit , Fehlverhalten 

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  Ungebühr 

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  Ungehörigkeit 
   see: improprieties
  

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  Unschicklichkeit 

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  unangemessenes Verhalten , Fehlverhalten 

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/ 
  1. अनौचित्य
        "The investigation revealed no impropriety."

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  neprikladnost, nepriličnost, netočnost

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  1. illetlenség
  2. helytelenség

  impropriety /ɪmpɹəpɹˈaɪətɪ/
  1. uygunsuzluk, yakışıksız oluş, yolsuzluk
  2. kelimeleri yanlış olarak kullanma.

  
/ˌɪmpɹəˈpɹaɪəti/

  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
  
  

  n.不适当；不正当

     n. 不适当,不得体,不正当的行为,用词不当