Correct or appropriate behavior.
1 Nothing was sacrificed to conventional ideas of propriety in his extraordinary dress.
2 Because to Sharaf's mind, Keller's presence imperiled far more than social propriety .
3 For the rest of the week the children were models of propriety .
4 There can be no doubt about this; I feel the deep propriety .
5 There was a dash of daring and doubtful propriety in the proposal.
6 He has, in the first, used the pagan deities with great propriety :
7 There is always a propriety in truth, and an impropriety in falsehood.
8 Words were exchanged despite Victorian propriety and she felt gay and giddy.
9 The third resolution declares the necessity and propriety of a national bank.
10 They were indeed merely a matter of family tradition and social propriety .
11 Mrs. Eyrecourt set up the old objection of the claims of propriety .
12 The noble Earl has alluded to the propriety of effecting parliamentary reform.
13 There was great reason to doubt the propriety of the present motion.
14 Thus Jupiter had in propriety Ganymede and Mercury, and Juno had Iris.
15 Perhaps I may with propriety add one thing of a personal nature.
16 One of these bâtons of propriety still is preserved in Longmeadow, Mass.
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