Noun

(impurities)

The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.

A component or additive that renders something else impure.

* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.

Noun

(-)

Indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous

* {{quote-book, year=1823, author=Charles Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6), chapter=Letter 305, edition= citation

, passage=I hope your eyes are better, but if you must spare them, there is nothing in my pages which a Lady may not read aloud without indecorum , which is more than can be said of Shakspeare . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Douglas Fairbanks, title=Laugh and Live, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This will be done decently and in good order--our training will admit of no indecorum . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Lytton Strachey, title=Queen Victoria, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum , might approach its utmost boundaries. }} ----