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Definition of Improbity
1. n. Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.
Definition of Improbity
1. Noun. A lack of probity, honesty or integrity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Improbity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Improbity
Literary usage of Improbity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"OF improbity, CONSIDERED AS A CAUSE OF ... testimony in the cause in hand can
with propriety be grounded on moral improbity in its several shapes, ..."
2. The Elements of the Art of Packing as Applied to Special Juries by Jeremy Bentham (1821)
"improbity in Judges, and their high Allies—its hostility to the Press. SOME years
ago,* on the examination of a question of finance, ..."
3. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"Which is agreeable to that general direction he gives in another place to the
clergy, not to admit any one of notorious improbity, cruelty, or impurity to ..."
4. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"If infidelity be true in itself, no amount of improbity or immorality, in persons
professing infidelity, will falsify the truth of their intellectual ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"At the head of these species of unfitness stands improbity. I mean here that
lesser or more questionable measure of improbity that would elude the grasp of ..."
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