IMPROPRIETY

n. 1 improperness, erroneousness, incorrectness, falsity, falseness, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inexactitude, inexactness, imprecision, impreciseness, irregularity, abnormality I fail to see the impropriety in refusing to support capital punishment 2 unfitness, unsuitableness, inappropriateness, inaptness, inapplicability, infelicity, infelicitousness, incongruity, incongruousness, unseemliness, incompatibility, inopportuneness The judge criticized the impropriety of allowing the child to testify 3 indecorousness, bad or poor taste, indecency, indelicacy, immodesty, unseemliness, suggestiveness, immorality, sinfulness, wickedness, lewdness, lasciviousness In those days, the impropriety in wearing a brief bathing costume was thought shocking 4 slip, blunder, mistake, error, gaffe, gaucherie, faux pas She admitted to many improprieties during her term of office