Usually means: Inappropriate behavior or lack of decorum.
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  1. impropriety: Merriam-Webster
  2. impropriety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impropriety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impropriety: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impropriety: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impropriety, impropriety: Wordnik
  7. impropriety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impropriety: Wiktionary
  9. impropriety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impropriety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impropriety: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Impropriety, impropriety: Dictionary.com
  13. impropriety: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Impropriety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. impropriety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. impropriety: Rhymezone
  17. Impropriety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. impropriety: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. impropriety: FreeDictionary.org
  20. impropriety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. impropriety: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. impropriety: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. impropriety: Legal dictionary

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  1. impropriety: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The condition of being improper.
▸ noun:  (countable) An improper act.
▸ noun:  Improper language.

Similar:
indecency, indecorum, improperness, familiarity, liberty, unproperness, inappropriateness, impertinence, properness, inexpedience, more...

Opposite:
propriety, decency, respectability

Types:
bribery, embezzlement, extortion, fraud, graft, kickback, money laundering, perjury, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, great, gross, such, financial, manifest, much, moral, obvious, slightest, constitutional

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Similar:
indecency, indecorum, improperness, familiarity, liberty, unproperness, inappropriateness, impertinence, properness, inexpedience, more...

Opposite:
propriety, decency, respectability

Types:
bribery, embezzlement, extortion, fraud, graft, kickback, money laundering, perjury, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, great, gross, such, financial, manifest, much, moral, obvious, slightest, constitutional

Colors:
    gray,     taupe,     beige,     mauve,     olive, more...



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