English Dictionary

impropriety

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɪm.prəˈpraɪ.ɪ.ti/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) The condition of being improper. / (countable) An improper act. / Improper language.

日本語の意味

（形容全体）不適切な状態、つまり適切でない性質や態度を指す。 / （具体的行為として）不作法な行動や、社会的・道徳的規範に反する行為。 / 下品または不適切な言語表現、言葉遣い。

The committee launched an investigation after hints of financial impropriety surfaced.

委員会は金銭的な不正行為の疑いが浮上した後、調査を開始した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The condition of being improper.

If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...

意味（2）

(countable) An improper act.

Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no appearance of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an appearance of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.

意味（3）

Improper language.

improprieties （ plural ）