impropriety
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French impropriété, from Latin improprietās. By surface analysis, improper + -iety or im- + propriety.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]impropriety (countable and uncountable, plural improprieties)
- (uncountable) The condition of being improper.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 295–296:
- If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...
- 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.), p. 23
- To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]
- (countable) An improper act.
- 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon[1], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 421:
- Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an "appearance" of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.
- Improper language.
Translations
[edit]being improper
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Improper act
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Improper language
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