All 4 Uses of
propriety
in
Babbitt
- He was as afraid of his still-faced clerks—of the eyes focused on him, Miss McGoun staring with head lifted from her typing, Miss Bannigan looking over her ledger, Mat Penniman craning around at his desk in the dark alcove, Stanley Graff sullenly expressionless—as a parvenu before the bleak propriety of his butler.†
Chpt 6 *
- You must be so excited;" and the proprieties compelled Babbitt and Paul to look excited.†
Chpt 11
- His predominant fear—not from any especial fondness for her but from the habit of propriety—was that his wife would learn of the affair.†
Chpt 29
- As Babbitt sneaked from Floral Heights down to the Bunch, so the young gallants sneaked from the proprieties of the Bunch off to "times" with bouncing young women whom they picked up in department stores and at hotel coatrooms.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior