Both Uses of
impropriety
in
Don Quixote
- Sancho had not thought it worth while to hobble Rocinante, feeling sure, from what he knew of his staidness and freedom from incontinence, that all the mares in the Cordova pastures would not lead him into an impropriety.†
Chpt 1.15-16 *
- 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?†
Chpt 1.33-34
Definition:
behavior thought not to be proper -- such as immoral or rude behavior