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It takes a politically grown woman or man to stand up for what is right … and by your shelving impeachment, you have tacitly accepted that the Repugnican assault on the Clintons, which had no gain for the American people but cost us billions … BILLIONS … of dollars on an investigation that only told us of oral sex … and nothing else improprietous or criminal.
Bush Struggles to Fill Posts as Term Winds Down - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It now appears as though former Rep. Eric Massa's troublingly improprietous behavior with staff members went slightly beyond impromptu birthday wrestling matches…
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You must regard people like Bob Ney, Tom DeLay and Virgil Goode (among others) as qualifying as being corrupt and improprietous.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word improprietous
A useful and bombastic way to say improper. By analogy with iniquitous and hypocritous.
August 23, 2008