How to Use impropriety in a Sentence

impropriety

noun

• She was shocked by the young man's impropriety.
• The judge excused herself from the case to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
• She was shocked by the impropriety of his behavior.
• He has been accused of financial improprieties.
• He has a reputation for impropriety.
• The pair laughed off any suggestion of impropriety when Leviss was found to have stayed over while Madix was out of town.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
• The city and Salimpour have both denied any impropriety.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2021
• The regrettable impropriety is already in the process of being kept in the family, a wound closed with a kiss.
  — Hannah Gold, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Through a lawyer, the group denied any fiscal impropriety, as did Mr. Rivera.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• While Adani Group has denied the claims, the suggestions of impropriety have caused the group’s stock values to fall by more than $100 billion.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
• Still, said Sessions, Michel’s request for a meeting did not have an air of impropriety on its face.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 19 Apr. 2023
• Hedtler-Gaudette added that sometimes, the appearance of impropriety is worse than the real thing.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2020
• Moreover, there appears just on the face of the opinions to be significant force to the campaign’s claims of impropriety.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Dec. 2020
• In 2019, he was given a senior role at the Treasury and placed his wealth in a blind trust to avoid allegations of impropriety.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• No criminal impropriety was found, but by end of 2019, the society and the zoo were winding up a messy divorce.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2021
• The review didn't indicate any impropriety in how the money was spent.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2022
• Both donors and Ohio State have operated with a healthy paranoia about crossing the line of impropriety.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
• By the early 1890s, a backlash against the possible impropriety of their stunts had begun.
  — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Judges below the Supreme Court are instructed to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• In the Times piece, both Taylor and Jamie Spears denied any impropriety through attorneys.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 2 July 2022
• Still, Levinson said the standards for impropriety would be more stringent if Caruso won the election.
  — Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
• In his view, the Justice Department’s actions were a legal error, not bad faith or impropriety, the judge said.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2023
• Couric first learned of Matt Lauer’s impropriety from a producer on Today.
  — Natalie Lin, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• Hollingsworth said Goss has stayed uninvolved to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 June 2021
• The Senate Democrats warned that Rivkin's access to the justice could create an appearance of impropriety.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2023
• One aristocrat wrote a scathing invective about the impropriety of Wroth’s work.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
• Beyond the impropriety of issuing this kind of a press release, the Justice Department, yet again, got its facts wrong.
  — Elie Honig, CNN, 28 June 2021
• Still, Allegro’s mere involvement in the process, at best, gives the appearance of impropriety that could have been avoided, Turcer says.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2021
• The allegations of impropriety about Broward vote counting from Trump aren’t new.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2022
• Parshu Shah -- the salesman who became head of prime-services risk -- hasn’t been accused of any impropriety in previous trades with Archegos.
  — Marion Halftermeyer, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024