inappropriateness

Example Sentences

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It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2024

The Jingxi City Public Security Bureau and local government defended the exercise, however, claiming it was an "on-site disciplinary warning activity" and that there was no "inappropriateness", according to local media.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2021

Mabel is like a surrogate granddaughter to Oliver and especially Charles, but the relationship is not cloying, nor does it descend into inappropriateness.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2021

I think the one thing Kramer really understood was that not only would an activist movement survive mainstream accusations of bad taste or inappropriateness, but sometimes you had to do that.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2020

I always forgot that Jack had a certain inappropriateness in his expressions and gestures, as if he had learned them from an illustrated text.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee