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Word Meanings - IMPROPRIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners. 2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every

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1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners. 2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

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  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • VOLUNTARINESS
    The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • INSULT
    1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
  • INSULTMENT
    Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • RESPECTER
    One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
  • FLATTERY
    The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
  • PRAISER
    1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
  • INSULTING
    Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
  • LEAVENING
    1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
  • FLATTERINGLY
    With flattery.
  • HONOR
    1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
  • FRANCHISEMENT
    Release; deliverance; freedom. Spenser.
  • HONORARY
    1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
  • LEAVELESS
    Leafless. Carew.
  • PRIVILEGE
    See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • SENSORI-VOLITIONAL
    Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.
  • CLEAVER
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  • BY-RESPECT
    Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
  • FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
    Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.

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