An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
IMPROPRIETY
familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty
(noun) an act of undue intimacy
indecency, impropriety
(noun) an indecent or improper act
impropriety, improperness
(noun) an improper demeanor
impropriety
(noun) the condition of being improper
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
impropriety (countable and uncountable, plural improprieties)
(uncountable) The condition of being improper.
(countable) An improper act.
Improper language.
Source: Wiktionary
Im`pro*pri"e*ty, n.; pl. Improprieties. Etym: [L. improprietas; cf. F. impropriété. See Improper.]
1. The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.
2. That which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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