Sentence examples for impropriety is a from inspiring English sources

Clerical impropriety is a hot topic, of course.

That the Knicks, one of the Eastern Conference's best teams so far this season, would crack open the door of impropriety is a little hard to fathom.

It's not for nothing that "the appearance of impropriety" is a core ethical standard in the code of conduct for United States judges — that is, all federal judges other than Supreme Court justices, who are ostensibly exempt from its strictures.

In law and corporate governance, the "appearance of impropriety" is a standard measure for ethical breaches.

Of course, beyond the mere letter of the law, there is also the "spirit of the law," and by that standard, there's much to dislike in this whole arrangement, even if you do not necessarily believe that the mere appearance of impropriety is a threat to good governance.

Unapologetic impropriety was a central tenet of Dada; it feels present here, too.

That's sports, but the public crusade to overturn the decision that began even before there was a sniff of scoring impropriety was a long way from sporting.

The amount advanced by the government to pay legal bills for Fannie Mae and its former executives accused of accounting improprieties was a well-kept secret for more than two years.

But Michael P. O'Looney, the department's chief spokesman, said the improprieties were an aberration and that the additional 203 felonies would have a minuscule effect on the overall 2002 Compstat numbers -- a total of 153,379 serious crimes reported citywide -- and on the F.B.I. uniform crime report numbers for 2002, reported this week.

Whether even an appearance of impropriety is enough to bring in a new prosecutor is a different question.

These and many other images of publicity stunts, corporate, political or personal, are gathered together under the rubric, "Impropriety is good publicity", in a new picture book called "Improperganda: the art of the publicity stunt".