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Definition of Improperness
1. Noun. An improper demeanor.
Generic synonyms: Behavior, Behaviour, Conduct, Demeanor, Demeanour, Deportment
Specialized synonyms: Incorrectness, Inappropriateness, Wrongness, Indelicacy, Indecorousness, Indecorum, Indecency
Derivative terms: Improper, Improper, Improper
Antonyms: Properness, Propriety
Definition of Improperness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improperness
Literary usage of Improperness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1839)
"... so: and the difficulty of resolving it, ariseth chiefly from the improperness
of the words wherein the question itself is couched. ..."
2. Leviathan; Or, The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical by Thomas Hobbes (1886)
"... how we know them to be the word of God, or why we believe them to be so :"
and the difficulty of resolving it, ariseth chiefly from the improperness of ..."
3. A Manual of Physical Training and Preparatory Military Instruction for by Frederick Arnold Kuenzli, Henry Panzer (1916)
"... must be called to the importance of a correct delivery of the flag and the
improperness of too early a start. Courier race in straight line. ..."
4. Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde, K. P.: Preserved at by James Butler Ormonde, Caesar Litton Falkiner, Francis Elrington Ball (1908)
"Small circumstances unforeseen and consequently unprovided for; but it seems when
the Q. at 9 at night past, 63 were convinced of the improperness, ..."
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