'Impropriety' definitions:
Definition of 'impropriety'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The condition of being improper
noun
An indecent or improper act [syn: indecency, impropriety]
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Definition of 'Impropriety'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. [1913 Webster]
- But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'impropriety'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- atrocity,
- Babbittry,
- 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,
- Gothicism,
- 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