| Main Entry: | impropriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad taste, mistake |
Synonyms: |
barbarism, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, immodesty, impudence, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, rudeness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity |
Antonyms: |
correctness, propriety, suitability, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | impropriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
awkward, clumsy, contraindicated, cumbersome, cumbrous, disadvantageous, discommodious, hulky, ill, impedient, improper, in the wrong place, inadmissible, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, incommodious, inconvenient, ineligible, inexpedient, inopportune, lumbering, objectionable, out of place, unadvisable, undesirable, unfit, unmanageable, unnecessary, unprofitable, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsubservient, unwieldy
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| Main Entry: | bad form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad style |
Synonyms: |
barbarism, impropriety, indecorum, inelegance, infelicity, solecism |
| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
Antonyms: |
kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | blooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
Synonyms: |
boner, boo-boo, bungle, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, mistake, slip, solecism, trip* |
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
Synonyms: |
blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip* |
Antonyms: |
accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
Synonyms: |
accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
| Main Entry: | faux pas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social error |
Synonyms: |
blooper, blooper, blunder, blunder in etiquette, boo-boo, botch, breach, break, bungle, colossal blunder, error, flop, flub, foul-up, gaffe, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hash, impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, mess, mess-up, misconduct, misjudgment, misstep, mistake, offense, oversight, slip, social blunder, solecism, transgression |
| Main Entry: | gaffe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake, goof |
Synonyms: |
blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, faux pas*, howler, impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, putting foot in mouth, slip*, solecism |
| Notes: | a gaff is an iron hook with a handle used for landing large fish, while a gaffe is a socially awkward or tactless error |
Antonyms: |
correction |
| Main Entry: | impertinence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness |
Synonyms: |
assurance, audacity, back talk, backchat, brazenness, cheek, chutzpah*, come-back, crust, disrespect, disrespectfulness, effrontery, forwardness, freshness, gall, guff, hardihood, impropriety, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, lip, nerve, pertness, presumption, rudeness, sass, smart mouth, wise guy, wisecrack |
Antonyms: |
humility, manners, politeness |