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Definition
socially correct or appropriate behavior
- I give the word decent an extra push, hoping to appeal to some maternal sense of shame and propriety.Chapter 1 (48% in)
- Miss Moore pulls a dazzling blue sapphire from the basket, sad disappointment registering quickly in her eyes before she remembers herself and makes her face a mask of restraint and propriety.Chapter 6 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "propriety" in A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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