All 3 Uses
propriety
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- She didn't want to know any of this about the adults who'd ruled her life, that beneath their veneer of propriety they might have been concealing a turmoil of emotions too.†
p. 259.9
- She'd be like that matronly grandmother who'd once worked as a spy in the war—the picture of propriety with a shocking past.†
p. 302.9 *
- It is a messy sort of crying, for Harriet seems to be past caring about wiping away snot or tears, past even thinking about propriety or appearances.†
p. 316.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(propriety) socially correct or appropriate behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)