n. Function: noun
1 the quality or state of being improper (as in social behavior) FF1C; was shocked by the impropriety of their actions FF1E;
Synonyms: incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, inelegance, unbecomingness, unmeetness, unseemliness, untowardness
Related Words: inadmissibility, objectionableness, unacceptableness
Contrasted Words: becomingness, decency, decorousness, decorum, meetness
Antonyms: propriety, seemliness
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Synonyms: FAUX PAS , blooper, boner, ||boo-boo, break, gaffe, indecorum, solecism; compare ERROR 2
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Synonyms: BARBARISM , corruption, slangism, solecism, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism