Impropriety - "the quality or condition of being improper" - wrong? bad?

Bedlam - "a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion" - so I guess it really didn't have anything to do with beds.

Humbug - "something intended to delude or deceive" or "a hard variety of mint candy" - well, he probably didn't mean the candy.

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