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• n  behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
• n  not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
• n  an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern
• n  irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis

• But in a recent paper in the journal Science, Marcos Cruz of Spain's Institute of Physics of Cantabria, along with Turok and others, reported they had detected an irregularity in .
• Grant theorizes that trichotillomania may be a kind of grooming irregularity that falls into the obsessive-compulsive family of disorders.
• Howard McGrath was fired as Attorney General in the furor about the corruption disclosures, although no specific irregularity has been charged against him.

• abnormality
• unregularity
• geometrical irregularity
• constipation

• regularity

News & Articles

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• Mobile County school board receives 'excellent audit' from state
  An audit of the Mobile County school system shows only one recent instance of financial irregularity for the fiscal year of Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2012.
  June 10, 2013 - Mobile Press-Register
• Principal who quit Bronx school after cheating scandal is under investigation again
  A disgraced principal who resigned amid a 2004 cheating scandal in The Bronx has resurfaced in a Hamptons school that's being investigated for a testing irregularity. Eric Casale, 41, high-tailed it out of PS 91 during a probe into charges that he covered up for a math teacher who...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Shashi Tharoor in NDTV.com
  Tharoor added, "I am new to Indian politics......but I have a long record of public service untainted by allegations of financial irregularity..........I am deeply wounded by the malicious charges against me."
• Radovan Karadzic in Reuters UK
  In a document submitted to the tribunal by Karadzic and published by the court on Friday, Karadzic wrote: "My arrival here was accompanied by many drastic irregularities." "The first irregularity I would mention is the media witch-hunt which...
• President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in International Herald Tribune
  ...told her economic Cabinet team Tuesday she wanted a quick outcome of separate investigations by the Justice Department and the government ombudsman into the deal so that "people can file a complaint if they see any irregularity."