impropriety

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Impropriety and dishonesty by members of our State’s judiciary cause real harm to all South Carolinians.

From Fox News • Mar. 2, 2022

Impropriety was the alleged crime, and female ambition the real cause. 

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2015

Besides the Unpoliteness, indeed, the Impropriety of the Word, this is to charge the above Writers with wilful and direct Forgeries.

From An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by Williams, John

Impropriety, in the sense of indelicacy, is out of the question in—a—a communication of this kind.

From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Holmes said what he could in favr of the Project; but my Father was clear in the Impropriety of it; and at last gave a flat Denial to it.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.