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Recent Examples of impropriety Although House rules allow members of Congress to provide gifts to other members, there is strict guidance on the appearance of impropriety and required disclosures. Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025 Although House rules allow members of Congress to provide gifts to other members, there is strict guidance on the appearance of impropriety and required disclosures. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 The appearance of impropriety, or worse, is too great. Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 However, Powell has firmly maintained that there has been no impropriety associated with the cost overruns of the renovation project. Brian Cheung, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for impropriety
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impropriety
Noun
  • This helps kids develop a growth mindset—where mistakes are part of learning, not something to fear.
    Lia Miller, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The scene where groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) runs aimlessly across the lawn borders on the ridiculous, but, without getting into spoilers, the only other mistake Peele makes is the film's antagonist.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Israel-Hamas war rattled campuses and spurred disrespect and intolerant behavior on all sides.
    James Druckman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The problem isn’t that my girlfriend wouldn’t get to go, but the disrespect and dishonesty of uninviting her out of the blue and trying to cover it up as being a genuine mistake.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His biggest accident was no blunder in the mountains, but becoming a billionaire.
    Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some began adding more blunders to the list when the Blue Jays dropped two games at the Rogers Centre to begin the ALCS — when Schneider offered up more pitching changes for fans to debate.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once Jem enters Ray’s remote, Spartan cabin in the woods, a whirlwind of indiscretions, family legacies, abusive authority figures, and even past dealings with the IRA get revisited through conversations told mostly near the fireplace.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Personal scandals are harder to survive For most people, personal indiscretions – such as having an extramarital affair or abusing drugs – are a private matter.
    Michael Nalick, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There aren’t any obvious errors that can be laid at Darlow’s door over the past four matches.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Sponsors assume no responsibility for any error, omissions, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation with transmission, communications, line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or allegation of submissions.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.
    Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
  • And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once.
    Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017

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“Impropriety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impropriety. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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