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Meanings of properness in English

Catalan
procedència
Spanish
procedencia

Correct or appropriate behavior.

procedència
Synonyms
Examples for "propriety"
Examples for "propriety"
1
Nothing was sacrificed to conventional ideas of propriety in his extraordinary dress.
The Law and the Lady
2
Because to Sharaf's mind, Keller's presence imperiled far more than social propriety.
Layover in dubai
3
For the rest of the week the children were models of propriety.
The Story of the Big Front Door
4
There can be no doubt about this; I feel the deep propriety.
The Young Duke
5
There was a dash of daring and doubtful propriety in the proposal.
The Christian: A Story
1
The irony of his tone belied the suave correctitude of his words.
Simon the Jester
2
The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak.
The War in the Air
3
The twain were petrified in their own awful correctitude.
Jaffery
4
He armed himself with a cold correctitude of politeness, and lowered the social temperature instead of raising it.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
5
A figure of correctitude entered.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
Usage of properness in English
1
She did glance down at her dress, though, checking it for neatness, for secretarial properness.
Ladder of years: a novel
2
How then can I, not having been birthed with properness become into one Genius on the instant?
Seven Maids of Far Cathay: Being English Notes From a Chinese Cl...
3
The sun shining so hot that you could go in your house-dress but for the properness of it.
Memories of Hawthorne
4
I want properness in my communication.
The Neutronium Alchemist
5
And it must be that you do all see with me in this matter, and commend me that I thought with properness.
The Night Land
6
And truly, you shall say, there was some properness to her heart, in that she could abide not but to watch me.
The Night Land
Translations for properness
Properness through the time