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单词 impropriety
释义
improprietyim‧pro‧pri‧e‧ty /ˌɪmprəˈpraɪəti/ noun (plural improprieties) [countable, uncountable] formal Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Smith has denied any sexual impropriety with his former employees.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • California Secretary of State Bill Jones is probing complaints of voter fraud and improprieties in the election, according to informed sources.
  • Here the Navy is under siege for all kinds of moral and ethical improprieties.
  • I can see no constitutional impropriety in this.
  • Since Pain was paying no attention to him, he decided that he might without impropriety ignore Pain.
  • The mediaeval church was divided on the issue of whether there was impropriety in the mimetic representation of holy personages on stage.
  • This danger is particularly great in relation to procedural impropriety, and we shall discuss it again in that context.
  • When this is done by a private government contractor, the impropriety is obvious.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· It is said that, in addition, the use of Form N111 instead of Form N79 was a procedural impropriety.· This danger is particularly great in relation to procedural impropriety, and we shall discuss it again in that context.· Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.· The judicial review procedure in the High Court is based on three tests: illegality; irrationality; and/or procedural impropriety.· His Lordship articulated three grounds for judicial review: illegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety.
behaviour or an action that is wrong or unacceptable according to moral, social, or professional standards:  Accusations of impropriety were made against the company’s directors.
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