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Definition: IMPROBITY |
IMPROBITYNoun1. Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Noun: improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace; (disrepute); fraud; (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Adjective: Judas kiss, betrayal. |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "IMPROBITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pandershmëri (dishonesty, fraudulence, fraudulency, indirection, knavery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нечестност (dishonesty, falseness), непочтеност (deviousness, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, obliquity). (various references) | |
Czech | nepoctivost (dishonesty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztességtelenség (dishonesty, nastiness). (various references) | |
Italian | improbit . (various references) | |
Korean | 사악. (various references) | |
Manx | neuynrickys (imperfection, insincerity, unfaithfulness), meechairys (iniquity, injustice, unfairness), aggairys (improperness, unfitness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | improbityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inverossímil (implement, impossible, improper, unlikely), improbidade (dishonesty, unrighteousness). (various references) | |
Romanian | necinste (bad faith, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, foulness, insult, knavery, knavishness, shame). (various references) | |
Russian | нечестность (dishonesty, rascality, rottenness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nečasnost (dishonesty). (various references) | |
Spanish | improbidad. (various references) | |
Swedish | ohederlighet (crookedness, dishonesty), oärlighet (dishonesty). (various references) | |
Turkish | onursuzluk (dishonor, dishonour), haysiyetsizlik, şerefsizlik (dishonesty, dishonor, dishonorableness, dishonour, dishonourableness, ignominy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | нечесність (baseness, dishonesty), порочність (depravity, naughtiness, turpitude, viciousness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thiếu th nh thực, sự không trung thực, sự gian dối, sự bất lương (knavery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "IMPROBITY" (pronounced 'Im*prob"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-m-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: probity. | |
-3 letters: import, probit. | |
-4 letters: borty, orbit, oribi, primi, primo, torii, tromp. | |
-5 letters: bort, brim, brio, brit, impi, miri, miry, mity, mopy, mort, obit, omit, orby, pity, port, prim, prom, rimy, riot, romp, ropy, roti, ryot, tipi, tiro, toby, tomb, topi, tori, tory, trim, trio, trip, trop, troy, typo, tyro. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-i-m-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: comparability, hypermobility, improbability, improvability, promotability. | |
+5 letters: performability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 52 4F 42 49 54 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. .-. --- -... .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000010 01001001 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P R O B I T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 0052 004F 0042 0049 0054 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434750524936435459 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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