IMPROPRIETY in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for IMPROPRIETY, such as:

1. It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety.
2. This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation.
3. Several employees were suspended amid allegations that financial improprieties had been committed.
4. Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband.
5. I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPROPRIETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impropriety
 n.  improper act; improper or unacceptable usage in speech or writing
Classic Sentence:
1  Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36
3  Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42
4  I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
5  If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  I sometimes even have doubts of the existence of God, Levin could not help saying, and he was horrified at the impropriety of what he was saying.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
7  I will pass over the impropriety of your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The facts in the case were these: Until a very little while after I went there, white and black ship-carpenters worked side by side, and no one seemed to see any impropriety in it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  It was the abode of noise, disorder, and impropriety.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  The lady modestly hesitated to reply, lest there should be any impropriety in holding an interview with Mr. Bumble, with closed doors.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is bad.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
12  Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, it was probable that it could be read without impropriety.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
13  Gentlemen," said the count, seating himself, "permit me to make a confession which must form my excuse for any improprieties I may commit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
14  This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and hesitation.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
Example Sentence:
1  Because of the impropriety of the punk rocker's slashed T-shirt and jeans, the management refused to admit him to the hotel's very formal dining room.
2  Buckingham Palace denies "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors" by Prince Andrew.
3  Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.
4  Several employees were suspended amid allegations that financial improprieties had been committed.