improbity
Example Sentences
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While that's unlikely to deter loyal Le Pen supporters, traditionally conservative voters, whom she so hopes to attract to her ranks, may be put off by the improbity of it all.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
"Beelzebub" had been floundering in the sea of improbity, holding by a slender life-line to the respectable world that had cast him overboard.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
Even in trifles, if the mind and tongue be at variance, there is some kind of improbity.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
Yet here too there is the stain of intellectual improbity, and it is perhaps all the more mischievous for being partly hidden under the mien of spiritual exaltation.
From On Compromise by John Morley
Would there be some fatal weakness, some insidious improbity, in the nature of those descending from Roland Sefton?
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
