The Only Use
impropriety
in
Brave New World
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- The word (for "father" was not so much obscene as—with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child-bearing—merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety); the comically smutty word relieved what had become a quite intolerable tension.†
p. 151.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(impropriety) behavior thought not to be proper -- such as immoral or rude behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)