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The senator denied any impropriety.impropriety = behavior that was not proper
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Our investigation paints a portrait of impropriety.
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It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety. (source)impropriety = inappropriate behavior
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They may have seen the impropriety of pursuing this line of investigation.† (source)
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She thought a game was being played which she did not understand, but she was certain there had been an impropriety, or even an insult.† (source)
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Whether the matter involved sexual impropriety or something to do with the litany we never learn, only that James was found in the confessional laughing softly and talking to himself.† (source)
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Roscoe decided there would be no impropriety in letting the girl go as far as the creek.† (source)
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He told the sympathetic women of Santa Fé and Albuquerque about all the stupid, unnecessary discomforts of his life in Denver, discomforts that amounted to improprieties.† (source)
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The defendant glanced down, weighing impropriety against honesty.† (source)
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Isabel had been made acquainted with the estimate prevailing under that roof: it represented Mr. Osmond's sister as a lady who had so mismanaged her improprieties that they had ceased to hang together at all—which was at the least what one asked of such matters—and had become the mere floating fragments of a wrecked renown, incommoding social circulation.† (source)
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Dignity would not permit such impropriety.† (source)
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"Gentlemen," said the count, seating himself, "permit me to make a confession which must form my excuse for any improprieties I may commit.† (source)
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However, because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become 'Mrs Benn', you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her, and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years.† (source)
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Isabel had been made acquainted with the estimate prevailing under that roof: it represented Mr. Osmond's sister as a lady who had so mismanaged her improprieties that they had ceased to hang together at all—which was at the least what one asked of such matters—and had become the mere floating fragments of a wrecked renown, incommoding social circulation.† (source)
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She could not laugh for the impropriety of it but the brightness in her eyes did not escape even Blevins.† (source)
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Indeed, the Artful, presuming upon their close attachment, more than once took occasion to reason gravely with his companion upon these improprieties; all of which remonstrances, Master Bates received in extremely good part; merely requesting his friend to be 'blowed,' or to insert his head in a sack, or replying with some other neatly-turned witticism of a similar kind, the happy application of which, excited considerable admiration in the mind of Mr. Chitling.† (source)
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