It had a peculiar sensitivity to certain stimuli, and he felt a sensation in its roots whenever he encountered prevarication, deception, or any degree of improbity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]

We are pressed by our very nature into the service of virtue; our souls are up in arms against vice and improbity, and thus we receive lasting impressions, which, when our hearts are not very corrupt, must forever after have a favourable influence on our moral conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

More privately he admitted that the substance and the shadow of improbity were the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

Congress does not have to sit by and accept the risk of operations thwarted by local and state improbity.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Progress Report] Reference

Would there be some fatal weakness, some insidious improbity, in the nature of those descending from Roland Sefton?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference

"Beelzebub" had been floundering in the sea of improbity, holding by a slender life-line to the respectable world that had cast him overboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

Howat was hot and cold, and possessed by a subtle sense of improbity, a feeling resembling that of a doubtful advance through the dark, for a questionable end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference

Yet here too there is the stain of intellectual improbity, and it is perhaps all the more mischievous for being partly hidden under the mien of spiritual exaltation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

If he can then defy the allurements of cupidity sensuality and ambition, the laugh of fools, the arts of parasites, and the contagion of improbity; then indeed, may he hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Gaston's Address. Delivered Before the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies at Chapel-Hill, on the 20th of June, 1832] Reference

Constitution, commerce, or toleration, I will suppose this man to have added much private improbity to public crimes; that his probity was like his patriotism, and his honor on a level with his oath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Union Speaker] Reference

Persons generally who were under no incapacity could make a will; those prohibited were such as had some defect of status, some vice or defect of mind, or even some sufficient defect of body, and those guilty of crime or improbity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Apart, however, from the immorality of such reasoned hypocrisy, which no man with a particle of honesty will attempt to blink, there is the intellectual improbity which it brings in its train, the infidelity to truth, the disloyalty to one's own intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

Briefly, in this man of culture and refinement, in whose own mysterious life one might perhaps have found various crimes but not a single act of base improbity, one could divine an implacable, obstinate theoretician, who was resolved to set the world ablaze for the triumph of his ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2] Reference

The supreme judge in Christendom had for six years trifled with justice, out of fear of an earthly prince; he concluded these years with uniting the extreme of folly with the extreme of improbity, and pronounced a sentence, willingly or unwillingly, which he had acknowledged to be unjust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

On the part of those on whom they operate, they are indicative either of improbity or intellectual weakness, or of a contempt for the understanding of those on whose minds they are indicative of intellectual weakness; and on the part of those in and by whom they are pretended to operate, they are indicative of improbity, viz., in the shape of insincerity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallacies of Anti-Reformers] Reference

Another illustration of intellectual improbity.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

By that irritative quality which, in virtue of their irrelevancy, with the improbity or weakness of which it is indicative, they possess, all of them, in a degree more or less considerable, but in a more particular degree such of them as consist in personalities, are productive of ill-humor, which in some instances has been productive of bloodshed, and is continually productive, as above, of waste of time and hindrance of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallacies of Anti-Reformers] Reference