IMPROPRIETY


Meaning of IMPROPRIETY in English

noun

1.

the quality or state of being improper (as in social behavior)

was shocked by the impropriety of their actions

Synonyms: incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inelegance, unbecomingness, unmeetness, unseemliness, untowardness

Related Word: inadmissibility, objectionableness, unacceptableness

Contrasted words: becomingness, decency, decorousness, decorum, meetness

Antonyms: propriety, seemliness

2.

Synonyms: faux pas , blooper, boner, ||boo-boo, break, gaffe, indecorum, solecism; compare error 2

3.

Synonyms: barbarism , corruption, slangism, solecism, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism

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