inappropriateness

Example Sentences

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Introducing a “Squid Game” fireplace seemed like an odd choice in 2024 — or any year, truly — but this year’s “KPop Demon Hunters” fireplace gives that some real competition for seasonal inappropriateness.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2024

The Jingxi City Public Security Bureau and local government defended the exercise, however, claiming it was an "on-site disciplinary warning activity" and that there was no "inappropriateness", according to local media.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2021

I think the one thing Kramer really understood was that not only would an activist movement survive mainstream accusations of bad taste or inappropriateness, but sometimes you had to do that.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2020

If you had done so, the inappropriateness of someone of your age and standing addressing him as "William" should have been self-evident to you.'

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro