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improbity Noun pl -ties Formal dishonesty or wickedness |
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Of course, the art of lying - or, if you're Don King, improbity and obfuscation - has been around since Adam and Eve. But Cardano reduced Tacitus to "a most ambitious man, attached to the faction of the optimati" (that is, senatorial opponents of imperial power) and "a priest of idols and a man of the highest ambition and improbity, if you want to put together his life from his own words. Lynch said, "I cannot but oppose those who would answer competition with oligopoly or would nullify due process with improbity. |
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s, from improbus, dishonest : in-, not; see in-1 + probus, honest, good; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
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