Sample Sentences for
propriety
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    Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was especially active during the oral argument, asking me lots of questions about the propriety of correctional staff engaging in medical procedures.  (source)
    propriety = appropriate behavior
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    This act of copulation, fertilization perhaps, which should have been no more to me than a bee is to a flower, had become for me indecorous, an embarrassing breach of propriety, which it hadn't been before.  (source)
    propriety = socially correct or appropriate behavior
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    And what about all his talk of honor and propriety, his disapproval of the female customers, who, after all, were only showing him their feet to get fitted for shoes?  (source)
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    I nod, remembering the propriety in Elizabeth's voice.  (source)
    propriety = social correctness
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    "Good points in him, good points in him," said Cousin Raymond; "Heaven forbid I should deny good points in him; but he never had, and he never will have, any sense of the proprieties."  (source)
    proprieties = socially correct or appropriate behavior
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    "You may even say, My Lord," replied Athos, who stickled for propriety.  (source)
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    Upon arrival in the Himalaya, Pittman appeared to adhere as closely as possible to the proprieties of high society.†  (source)
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    Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety.†  (source)
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    One had to be guided by the judgement of 'the true ladies and gentlemen', argued the Society, or else 'we may as well adopt the proprieties of Bolshevik Russia'.†  (source)
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    In deference to Radchaai propriety, she wore gloves.†  (source)
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    The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.†  (source)
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    After this, you must behave with the utmost propriety.†  (source)
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    For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.†  (source)
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