My dear young friend, when you are as old as I am, you will see the improprieties of such questions.
A little short of Rubens is intolerable: the clumsy forms and improprieties of his imitators are not to be endured.
The improprieties of fashion are therefore of the absurd and ludicrous kind, and consequently fit subjects of comic ridicule.
He had studied, and he had noted on the varieties of human character; and it is evident that the lesser improprieties of conduct and errors of domestic life had often been the subjects of his secret ridicule.
Addison principally excelled in the observation of manners, and in that exquisite ridicule he threw on the minute improprieties of life.
Mistakes and Improprietiesin Speaking and Writing Corrected.
Mr. Perry Gwynn’s “A Word to the Wise; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking.
Mr. Parry Gwynn's "A Word to the Wise; or, Hints on the Current Improprieties of Writing and Speaking.
Mistakes and Improprietiesin Speaking and and Writing corrected.
But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities.
To free fromimproprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
It is probable that as times goes on, plays become more outwardly respectable, and the improprieties are less emphasised; possibly for that very reason they are more insidious.
But it is worth noting that it is just these pieces which are most infected with improprieties of dress from which Christian eyes should be kept.
We will only add, that Voltaire affected an interesting blush when he thought on the improprieties of the Book of Ruth.
When news came to him of various improprieties spreading there, he sent a legate to investigate, and in consequence of his report addressed severe censures which were submitted to without opposition.
In the first clause alone may be found instances of all the improprieties which I have mentioned to your lordships.
Of Eulogiums, Complainings, Improprieties in general, and Prejudices.
Several examples of the latter kind, including both innovations and archaisms, will appear among the improprieties for correction, at the end of this chapter.
When in this situation, unlike other men, Mr. Cleveland's conduct was not distinguished by any of the little improprieties of behaviour by which a man is always known by his friends "to be very drunk.
Wanderings andImproprieties of the 'Latter-day Saints' -- Gov.
The following exercises deal with a number of common improprieties resulting from the confusion of two similar words.
Many improprieties have their origin in the similarities in sound, spelling or meaning of words.
He hopes his severe sufferings may be considered as some atonement for the improprieties of which he may have been guilty; and that the Venerable Court will, in their judgment, remember mercy.
It was given to Mr. Gresley to perceive that the French classics are only read for the sake of the hideous improprieties contained in them.
She only said that if she introduced improprieties into her book in order to make money, in her opinion she deserved to be whipped in the public streets.
That it is coarse and profane and exaggerated, and that I have put in improprieties in order to make it sell, and that I run down the clergy, and that the book ought never to be published.
English edition of "A Word to the Wise, or Hints on the Current Improprieties of Expression in Writing and Speaking," by Parry Gwynne, a few passages not applicable to the habits of American society being omitted.
Now I reckon among the defects and improprieties of common speech, the following, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improprieties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
