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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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I nod, remembering the propriety in Elizabeth's voice. (source)propriety = social correctness
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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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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)propriety = socially correct or 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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"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)
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"You may even say, My Lord," replied Athos, who stickled for propriety. (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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After this, you must behave with the utmost propriety.† (source)
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The Greatjon, no respecter of proprieties, lifted her off her feet and squeezed her arms with his huge hairy hands.† (source)
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There was some notion of propriety in her about this but he had never been able to fully make sense of it.† (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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Upon reading this, you may be tempted to ask a little sardonically whether Count Rostov—this self-proclaimed man of propriety—allowed himself to overhear any of the private exchanges around the table?† (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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