Sentence examples for very improper from inspiring English sources

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked," Seeger replied.

"It would be very improper" if Bonds were suspended, Moss said, "because he would prejudice the legal proceeding.

"That is very improper," said attorney Michael Wright, who said that Ritchie's statement on what happened should have been based only on what he remembered seeing.

I asked him if he did not realise that his responsibilities as a journalist and an Englishman made the sending of such a message without definite authority as to its truth very improper and reckless".

One is small in the scale of things; it's very improper for him to be out there commenting on monetary policy for personal gain, when his successor is new to the office and needs to establish his own credibility.

The British author James Kirkup, writing in The Independent, called him an "erotic crime specialist" and said, "His prose style is so individual, so slangy and often so very improper in its demented vocabulary that I wonder how anyone could transform it into acceptable English".

"Even our opponents would say that after eight months it would be very unfair and improper to hang this set of election results on Jeremy Corbyn's peg alone," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

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Veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard have very little tolerance for improper behavior and strive to conduct themselves according to uncompromising ethics.

Now let me be very frank: this is improper, it is not the right reading of the proposal, and it does not correspond at all to the texts that everybody can read in Article 14, in Article 15.

Bennett, who will represent Enron in dealings with Congress, said it would be "very unfair to draw any improper motive based on these contributions.