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Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

And if any police were warning bars against serving the Santas, “that would be improper behavior by a government official.”

I feel sorry because (patients) got the surgery with improper devices, so they might suffer from it.

It could be that those downstream abnormalities in cell development were due to improper signaling from the cerebellum.

Improper burial, Dove says, could mean that harmful bacteria are leeching into the waterways.

Yet the business may become a nuisance when conducted in some localities, or in an improper manner.

Are we to abandon any one means of doing good, because the improper use of it would do injury?

I often heard Europeans remark that they considered the procession of the nuptial couch extremely improper.

This improper use of a parent's home has also occurred in other districts.

What was a generation ago considered improper is now generally accepted as a subject for display.

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On this page you'll find 170 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to improper, such as: awkward, erroneous, false, ill-advised, imprudent, and inaccurate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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