Inappropriateness Definition & Meaning

inappropriateness
noun
  1. inappropriate conduct
  2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness"

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