impropriety

== English == === Etymology === From French impropriété, from Latin improprietās. By surface analysis, improper +‎ -iety or im- +‎ propriety. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌɪm.pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/ === Noun === impropriety (countable and uncountable, plural improprieties) (uncountable) The condition of being improper. Synonyms: dishonour, indecency, unseemliness; see also Thesaurus:improbity 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.), p. 23 To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […] (countable) An improper act. Improper language. ==== Translations ====