Sample Sentences forpropriety (editor-reviewed)
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While she took comfort in propriety, he saw it as a straitjacket.propriety = socially correct or appropriate behavior
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She was known for losing all sense of propriety once she had a few drinks.
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But Esperanza loved her more for her capricious ways than for her propriety. (source)
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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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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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Now she is all worry and apprehension and 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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In deference to Radchaai propriety, she wore gloves.† (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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Because she picked propriety over passion.† (source)
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There had been no time for the usual proprieties that exist between neighbors; no time to establish boundaries.† (source)
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