proprietyformal

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impropriety | American Dictionary

impropriety
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪm·prəˈprɑɪ·ɪ·t̬i/
dishonest behavior, or a dishonest act:
[ U ]He said he regretted the appearance of impropriety and resigned.
[ C ]There have been charges of financial improprieties.

impropriety | Business English

impropriety
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌɪmprəˈpraɪəti/uspluralimproprieties
behaviour that is dishonest or not acceptable in a particular situation:
accounting/financial improprieties
The company denies allegations of impropriety involving its copper trades.

Examples of impropriety

impropriety
Tumusiime was taken to court, but to the utter chagrin of parliamentarians he was acquitted of charges of running down the corporation and financial impropriety.
The others were found guilty of financial impropriety or negligence causing losses of revenue to the state.
As a consequence of the improprieties and losses of the funds, the industry's reputation suffered for several years.
Perversely his practices made it difficult for any authority to accuse him of impropriety.
Like others, she felt the impropriety of making her suffering known.
This explains, in part, why neither the medium nor her spirit were charged with impropriety.
The great sin of the orator, as for the architect, is to be guilty of improprium, impropriety (viii.2.3-4).
This clear rule would help bypass concerns about coercion, motivation, violations of bodily integrity, intrusions upon autonomy, and other indicia of possible impropriety.
In that sense, no issue of impropriety, much less illegality, can possibly arise.
He is a man who has left teaching, having been hounded out after unfair allegations of impropriety with a male pupil.
At least one of them has impropriety one because it is joined with a vertex of the same colour not lying on the outer cycle.
The ' disorder ' is the impropriety of a man of low rank addressing a group of gentlemen and courtiers in person, demanding their attention for his subject without any opening remarks.
Acknowledging the impropriety of her taking possession in secular dress, he recommended that she proceed from novitiate to profession within two days and despatched the garments necessary for her vesture.
I do not suggest that there is any impropriety in that for a moment.
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