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impropriety

/im-pruh-prahy-i-tee/US // ˌɪm prəˈpraɪ ɪ ti //UK // (ˌɪmprəˈpraɪɪtɪ) //

不当行为,不正当行为,不当,不恰当的行为

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural im·pro·pri·e·ties for 4, 5.

    • : the quality or condition of being improper; incorrectness.
    • : inappropriateness; unsuitableness.
    • : unseemliness; indecorousness.
    • : an erroneous or unsuitable expression, act, etc.
    • : an improper use of a word or phrase.

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Examples

  • Prospect has defended its quality of care and denied any improprieties.

  • Aides to Feinstein and Loeffler previously acknowledged that the senators had been in contact with federal law enforcement and denied any impropriety.

  • His disappearance is reminiscent of past instances in which Beijing has detained business executives without warning for what it sees as impropriety.

  • More recently, increased scrutiny over its business practices has led government regulators to crack down on perceived improprieties and some users have shown a slight sway towards a more privacy-oriented search experience.

  • We’ve been over this to some extent before, evaluating the arguments about alleged improprieties, claims for which there’s no credible evidence.

  • In these two cases, something other than ideology was, at least ostensibly, at stake—qualifications or some kind of impropriety.

  • At some funds, the mere suggestion of impropriety can prove fatal, as investors flee.

  • John Barry on the lonely life of the general—and the early hints of impropriety.

  • So far Mitt Romney has run a careful, disciplined campaign that has avoided the slightest whiff of impropriety.

  • Although he denied any sexual impropriety, he admitted giving money to White without the knowledge of his wife.

  • A gentleman of the bar remarked that he could see no impropriety in a man and his wife a-door-ing each other.

  • The common experience is that a charge of sexual impropriety comes from information supplied by the female.

  • Sensible at this point of the extreme impropriety of my presence, I rose, with an apology, to leave.

  • But we could not without impropriety call either of these assertions an induction from facts respecting the earth.

  • This the old King had sternly refused; pointing out its impropriety from both a political and a family aspect.