impropriety

Wring your hands, if you must, over the impropriety of the U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Fain, 57 years old, has denied impropriety, and said the monitor holds a “political grudge” against him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Khan’s lawyers said he didn’t change his position and “unequivocally denied all allegations of impropriety when they were first raised with him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Ministerial ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus said he had "allowed a perception of impropriety to develop" and "failed to uphold the standards expected in the rules".

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

I heard them whisper at the impropriety of my roving about unaccompanied, but I didn’t care.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

A wide-ranging probe by the department’s internal watchdog is scrutinizing potential improprieties in the contracting process, including evidence of personal enrichment by top officials, report Tarini Parti, Josh Dawsey, Michelle Hackman and Summer Said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

We remain firmly committed to workplaces free of improprieties and unproductive environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Just over a year after it acquired the business, HPE announced it was writing down the value of Autonomy by $8.8bn because it had found "serious accounting improprieties".

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

He’d been ousted from the Bears club, presumably because of the financial improprieties, and now he was coaching an adult group, called a masters team, on the university campus.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

Now I reckon among the defects and improprieties of common speech, the following, viz.

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