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impropriety

[im-pruh-prahy-i-tee] / ˌɪm prəˈpraɪ ɪ ti /


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The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety in the "special intensive revision", saying it was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Wring your hands, if you must, over the impropriety of the U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Last year Air Mail published accusations against Leto of impropriety by nine women, though he denied those claims at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Khan’s lawyers said he didn’t change his position and “unequivocally denied all allegations of impropriety when they were first raised with him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father’s behaviour as a husband.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

A wide-ranging probe by the department’s internal watchdog is scrutinizing potential improprieties in the contracting process, including evidence of personal enrichment by top officials, report Tarini Parti, Josh Dawsey, Michelle Hackman and Summer Said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The visit falls days after Bloomberg reported that two insurance companies controlled by Walter, as well as Guggenheim Partners, where Walter is chief executive, are being investigated by federal prosecutors for potential financial improprieties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Sir Laurie said in his report that he had "not identified evidence of improprieties".

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

He’d been ousted from the Bears club, presumably because of the financial improprieties, and now he was coaching an adult group, called a masters team, on the university campus.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

Thus we have, in the modern English pronunciation, their natshures, conjunctshures, constitshutions, and tshumultshuous legislatshures, and a long catalogue of fashionable improprieties.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder


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