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    impropriety


    1. But I want to apologize once again for my impropriety the other day


    2. impropriety of his actions and oblivious to Bernadette’s


    3. The necessity of these temporary statutes sufficiently demonstrates the impropriety of this general one


    4. The temporary laws, prohibiting, for a limited time, the exportation of corn, and taking off, for a limited time, the duties upon its importation, expedients to which Great Britain has been obliged so frequently to have recourse, sufficiently demonstrate the impropriety of her general system


    5. Those several prices seem all of them a good deal too low; and there seems to be an impropriety, besides, in prohibiting exportation altogether at those precise prices at which that bounty, which was given in order to force it, is withdrawn


    6. The following observations may serve to shew the impropriety of this representation : ˜


    7. There is no impropriety, therefore, in its being defrayed by the general contribution of the whole society


    8. crime and impropriety made against members of the Canadian Forces


    9. Any law clerk could have pointed out to the President the impropriety of such a proposal


    10. many times not to question the impropriety of Tobias Chandler's use

    11. Set a tone at the top that any allegations regarding impropriety will be investigated,


    12. could be together without fear of impropriety


    13. The wife was somewhat chagrined at her husband’s impropriety


    14. You may be surprised to find that I have been cleared of any and all charges of impropriety


    15. He had known Doug Graisco almost as long as Wickland, and the suggestion of some impropriety on his part was a foreign concept


    16. However, now that multiple investigations have shown that all, and I say all the persons accused by the Revealer were indeed guilty of at least corruption or sexual impropriety, being accused by him now is like a career death sentence


    17. "What makes you think there is any danger of impropriety with Mr


    18. (i) “Secure in Comfort” is my report as the Public Protector of the Republic of South Africa on an investigation conducted into allegations of impropriety and unethical conduct relating to the installation and implementation of security and related measures at the private residence of the President of the Republic of South Africa, His Excellency J G Zuma, at Nkandla in the KwaZulu-Natal Province


    19. claimed without any impropriety that dharm, properties and conduct


    20. The future Queen does not wish for any impropriety to be linked with the Abbey, and its patron, the royal family by extension

    21. Despite this presumption to unfitness and impropriety with


    22. The slightest hint of impropriety, of noncompliance, and we’re done


    23. "That is the truth," replied Anselmo, "and relying upon that I will tell thee, friend Lothario, that the desire which harasses me is that of knowing whether my wife Camilla is as good and as perfect as I think her to be; and I cannot satisfy myself of the truth on this point except by testing her in such a way that the trial may prove the purity of her virtue as the fire proves that of gold; because I am persuaded, my friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he detects her in an impropriety? I do not therefore hold her who is virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation as her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory; and so, for these reasons and many others that I could give thee to justify and support the opinion I hold, I am desirous that my wife Camilla should pass this crisis, and be refined and tested by the fire of finding herself wooed and by one worthy to set his affections upon her; and if she comes out, as I know she will, victorious from this struggle, I shall look upon my good fortune as unequalled, I shall be able to say that the cup of my desire is full, and that the virtuous woman of whom the sage says 'Who shall find her?' has fallen to my lot


    24. But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation


    25. Ladies who like distinctive underclothing should, and every welltailored man must, trying to make the gap wider between them by innuendo and give more of a genuine filip to acts of impropriety between the two, she unbuttoned his and then he untied her, mind the pin, whereas savages in the cannibal islands, say, at ninety degrees in the shade not caring a continental


    26. “And why would he do that? I hope there’ s no impropriety going on


    27. The military not only disliked appearances of impropriety, it loathed them


    28. This was a tete-a-tete of extreme impropriety; something of which in the whole extent of the Republic only the extraordinary Antonia could be capable—the poor, motherless girl, never accompanied, with a careless father, who had thought only of making her learned


    29. He knew he ought to argue—that serving his own plate before the Empress of Charis was served was the height of impropriety


    30. I sometimes even have doubts of the existence of God,’ Levin could not help saying, and he was horrified at the impropriety of what he was saying

    31. I will pass over the impropriety of your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your Captain Butler! I have heard much of him (as who has not?) and Pauline wrote me only warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital


    32. ” Rhett lent an When Bonnie was four years old, Mammy began to grumble about the impropriety of a attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy’s remarks about the proper raising


    33. Her looks grew bolder, her speech more free; she even committed the impropriety of walking out with Monsieur Rodolphe, a cigarette in her mouth, "as if to defy the people


    34. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is bad


    35. Cursing his temerity, his heart sinking at the thought of finding himself at any moment face to face with the Emperor and being put to shame and arrested in his presence, fully alive now to the impropriety of his conduct and repenting of it, Rostov, with downcast eyes, was making his way out of the house through the brilliant suite when a familiar voice called him and a hand detained him


    36. Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, it was probable that it could be read without impropriety


    37. We are not suggesting any impropriety on your part


    38. “Do not you think,” said Fanny, after a little consideration, “that this impropriety is a reflection itself upon Mrs


    39. Sir Thomas saw all the impropriety of such a scheme among such a party, and at such a time, as strongly as his son had ever supposed he must; he felt it too much, indeed, for many words; and having shaken hands with Edmund, meant to try to lose the disagreeable impression, and forget how much he had been forgotten himself as soon as he could, after the house had been cleared of every object enforcing the remembrance, and restored to its proper state


    40. Norris was a little confounded and as nearly being silenced as ever she had been in her life; for she was ashamed to confess having never seen any of the impropriety which was so glaring to Sir Thomas, and would not have admitted that her influence was insufficient, that she might have talked in vain

    41. It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety


    42. “On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong, and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure


    43. Norris was a little confounded and as nearly being silenced as ever she had been in her life; for she was ashamed to confess having never seen any of the impropriety which was so glaring to Sir Thomas, and would not have admitted that her influence was insufficient—that she might have talked in vain


    44. To the statesmen I will impart my projects; to the poet I will speak in rhyme; with the ladies I can be amusing and charming without impropriety, since I shall be no danger to their husbands' peace of mind


    45. He only wanted one thing, and that was to get to Nastasia Philipovna’s, even at the cost of a certain amount of impropriety


    46. The remarks and exclamations of the spectators here were of so irritating a nature that Keller was very near making them a speech on the impropriety of their conduct, but was luckily caught by Burdovsky, in the act of turning to address them, and hurried indoors


    47. The impropriety of Semyon Ivanovitch's behaviour embarrassed and annoyed all really well-bred people


    48. Nekhludoff said what he had been thinking, and at first his aunt, Katerina Ivanovna, seemed to agree with him, but at last she became silent as the rest had done, and Nekhludoff felt that he had committed something akin to an impropriety


    49. Cursing his temerity, his heart sinking at the thought of finding himself at any moment face to face with the Emperor and being put to shame and arrested in his presence, fully alive now to the impropriety of his conduct and repenting of it, Rostóv, with downcast eyes, was making his way out of the house through the brilliant suite when a familiar voice called him and a hand detained him


    50. But before we can determine upon the propriety or impropriety of the resolutions, to me it appears indispensable that we should examine attentively and minutely, not only the situation of this country in relation to France and Britain, but also the injuries and aggressions they have committed upon our neutral rights








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    Synonyms for "impropriety"

    familiarity impropriety indecorum liberty indecency improperness mistake peccadillo boner gaffe

    "impropriety" definitions

    an improper demeanor


    the condition of being improper


    an indecent or improper act


    an act of undue intimacy