improbity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=pro=bi=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

improbity, n. [L. improbitas; pref. im- not + probitas probity: cf. F. improbité.].

 Lack of probity; lack of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.  [1913 Webster]
"Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

improbity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 wickedness; lack of moral integrity.
2 dishonesty.
3 a wicked or dishonest act.

Etymology

L improbitas (as IN-(1), PROBITY)

THESAURUS

improbity

Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, cunning, deceitfulness, dishonesty, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, low cunning, treachery, two-facedness, wile

ROGET THESAURUS

improbity

Improbity

N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.