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impropriety

noun
🔊/ˌɪmprəˈpraɪəti/
🔊/ˌɪmprəˈpraɪəti/
[uncountable, countable]
(plural improprieties)
(formal)
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  1. behaviour or actions that are dishonest, morally wrong or not appropriate for a person in a position of responsibility（身居要职者）不诚实（或不正当、不合适）的行为举止
    • There was no evidence of impropriety.没有行为不当的证据。
    • accusations of financial impropriety财务不当指控
    • He said that he would resign his post if the public felt he had engaged in improprieties.他说，如果公众觉得自己从事不当行为，他将辞职。
    opposite propriety
    Extra Examples
    • Parliament was was accused of constitutional impropriety.国会被指控违宪。
    • There is no suggestion of impropriety by the minister.没有发现部长行为不端的任何迹象。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • financial
    • procedural
    • sexual
    • …
    verb + impropriety
    • commit
    • accuse somebody of
    phrases
    • a suggestion of impropriety
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘inaccuracy’): from French impropriété or Latin improprietas, from improprius, from in- ‘not’ + proprius ‘one's own, proper’.