"Suppose, Mr. Speaker, that to Wharton or to Marlborough, or to any of the eminent Whigs of the last age, the devil had, not with any great impropriety, consented to appear, he would, perhaps, in somewhat like these words, have commenced the conversation:英文原著 · 《Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson》
However, I hope your reporter has been more accurate in other instances than in mine. I have corrected one passage, in which I am made to speak with great impropriety and petulance, respecting the opinions of those who do not approve of dramatic entertainments. I have restored what I said, which was meant to be respectful, as every objection founded in conscience is, in my opinion, entitled to be so treated. Other errors I left as I found them, it being of little consequence whether I spoke sense or nonsense in what was merely intended for the purpose of the hour.英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》
you want lords, my dear, do you?" said the advocate, dragging her by the arm, and throwing her like one of his bags on to the bed. "Remember that if I have a pencase at my side instead of a sword, I have a penknife in this pencase, and that penknife will go into your heart on the least suspicion of conjugal impropriety. I believe I have seen that gentleman somewhere."英文原著 · 《Droll Stories-2》
But the truth is, Crito, that the study itself and the men themselves are utterly mean and ridiculous.' Now censure of the pursuit, Socrates, whether coming from him or from others, appears to me to be undeserved; but as to the impropriety of holding a public discussion with such men, there, I confess that, in my opinion, he was in the right.英文原著 · 《Euthydemus》
Mumpson felt some embarrassment in her purpose to overwhelm Holcroft with a sense of the impropriety of his conduct.英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
Was there any impropriety in seizing her hand and cordially pressing it? The result of this expression of gratitude was, to say the least of it, perplexing.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
But someone as. keenly sensitive as you must have noticed the vibrations, if not the actual sonic boom, of impropriety.美剧 · 《Billions》
The way that people look at police these days, we can't afford even the whiff of impropriety.美剧 · 《Billions》
You mean accusations of a decades-old impropriety-- Date rape.美剧 · 《Billions》
OK, the alcoholism, the sexual impropriety at work, the impending crash of Hooli's stock…美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》