improbity
[ im-proh-bi-tee ]
noun
lack of honesty or moral scruples.
Obsolete. perseverance.
Origin of improbity
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How to use improbity in a sentence
Would there be some fatal weakness, some insidious improbity, in the nature of those descending from Roland Sefton?
Cobwebs and Cables | Hesba StrettonIf the immorality is less gross in the case of religion, there is the stain of intellectual improbity.
A History of Freedom of Thought | John Bagnell BuryEven in trifles, if the mind and tongue be at variance, there is some kind of improbity.
British Dictionary definitions for improbity
improbity
/ (ɪmˈprəʊbɪtɪ) /
nounplural -ties
dishonesty, wickedness, or unscrupulousness
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