Example sentences for: impropriety

How can you use “impropriety” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (The trick works both ways: Actual miscreants confess to having created an appearance of impropriety, thus sidestepping the little matter of impropriety itself.)

  • But in its absence, we settle for politicians who abide by the rules (like the phones rules), which are devised to cloak impropriety in propriety.

  • Regarding the dialogue between Susan Estrich and David Brooks in "The Breakfast Table" (June 22): Now I know that I can't have a beer with a friend in a public bar in Washington without being accused of impropriety by one of President Clinton's ever-watchful partisans.

  • 4. Bauer is covering up allegations of the appearance of impropriety.

  • Unable to produce allegations of impropriety, reporters asked Bauer in accusatory tones whether he had "met behind closed doors" with the aide, Melissa McClard (answer: yes), and whether Bauer's aides had told him "that people are asking questions [about it] and it's making people uncomfortable."


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