All 5 Uses of
propriety
in
The Idiot
- Anyhow I am ready to trespass the laws of propriety if only I can get in somehow or other.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- It was not that they distinguished themselves as a family by any particular originality, or that their excursions off the track led to any breach of the proprieties.†
Chpt 3.1proprieties = socially correct or appropriate behavior
- How dare they laugh at me in your house?" said Aglaya, turning sharply on her mother in that hysterical frame of mind that rides recklessly over every obstacle and plunges blindly through proprieties.†
Chpt 3.2
- He had entered the room with propriety and grace, and he was perfectly dressed; he not only did not "fall down on the slippery floor," as he had expressed it, but evidently made a very favourable impression upon the assembled guests.†
Chpt 4.6
- It was so unlike his usual timid self-constraint; so inconsistent with his usual taste and tact, and with his instinctive feeling for the higher proprieties.†
Chpt 4.7proprieties = socially correct or appropriate behavior