Impropriety and Properness

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Impropriety noun - The quality or state of not being socially proper.

Usage example: the impropriety of the song that the campers sang for the visitors was embarrassing

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Properness is an antonym for impropriety.

Properness noun - The quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting.

Usage example: questioned the properness of having any curfew at all for people of college age

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Impropriety is an antonym for properness in decency topic.

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