impropriety
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TWG Global — the holding company of Dodgers owner Mark Walter — rejected allegations of financial impropriety in the purchase and operation of the Dodgers and reiterated the team is not for sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
There is no evidence that Chopra observed any impropriety during his friendship with Jackson.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
But allegations of corruption and impropriety have surfaced, as reported by The Wall Street Journal in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
However, Jackson's later years would be punctuated by scandal, including revelations of marital infidelity and financial impropriety involving his son and political heir, Jesse Jackson Jr, who served as a congressman from Illinois.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
I heard them whisper at the impropriety of my roving about unaccompanied, but I didn’t care.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
That sounds a lot like what Dodgers president Stan Kasten said Friday, amid a federal investigation into alleged financial improprieties among insurance companies controlled by Dodgers owner Mark Walter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
This was in response to Scottish government officials receiving a whistleblowing report in June, claiming "financial/procurement improprieties" involving a director.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 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
She proved equal to the occasion, partly because she was in all probability innocent of anything worse than a qualified acquiescence in Seymour’s improprieties and a girlish admiration for his handsome face.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing impropriety
"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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