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Meaning of Impropriety | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˌɪm.pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ɪ.ti

Definitions

  1. The condition of being improper.
  2. An improper act.
  3. Improper language.

Equivalents

Examples

“If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...”
“To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]”
“Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an "appearance" of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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