propriety in English

noun
1
the state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals.
he always behaved with the utmost propriety

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1. Lie also have propriety.

2. Also Convenances Conventional propriety

3. Correctitude: propriety; Correctitude; properness; English

4. They conducted themselves with propriety.

5. Their sense of social propriety is eroded.

6. Agreeableness: See: amenability , amenity , benevolence , comity , propriety

7. Correctitude: Appropriate manners and behavior; propriety

8. The propriety of Backdating, however, depends upon its …

9. How might the propriety of disfellowshipping be illustrated?

10. Exactly. But my sense of propriety has its limits.

11. The sensitive matter was handled with great propriety.

12. Kids today have no sense of propriety.

13. Philip of Swabia acted with the greatest propriety.

14. 13 synonyms for Advisability: wisdom, fitness, profitability, prudence, suitability, propriety

15. Several propriety systems are available to support canes.

16. Propriety prevents a description of what happened next.

17. She was careful always to behave with propriety.

18. We hesitated at the propriety of the method.

19. The poor boy continued to fight with propriety in these fictions.

20. Nobody questioned the propriety of her being there alone.

21. Victorian propriety would have frowned upon such individual excesses.

22. Benevolence, moral righteousness and propriety were three important components of Confucian ethics.

23. The people of South Galatia could with propriety be styled Galatians.

24. The propriety; the Correctitude; the properness – correct or appropriate behavior 1.

25. Jesus affirmed the propriety of paying the tax that Caesar demanded.

26. Critics have questioned the propriety of some of the Senator's loans.

27. Afreet™ is an organic beeswax and coconut propriety wax blend scented candle

28. Definition of Chaperone (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety sense 2) accompanies one or more young unmarried women in …

29. Emotion becomes ever more constrained by feelings of shame, repugnance or propriety.

30. But the residents are inordinately preoccupied with propriety, and nothing at all is funny.

31. 10 synonyms for Acceptability: adequacy, fitness, suitability, propriety, appropriateness, admissibility, permissibility, acceptableness, satisfactoriness

32. Synonyms for Convenances include propriety, decorum, etiquette, protocol, ceremony, civilities, conventionalities, decency, form and formalities

33. So even the most torrid affair should be conducted with a decided sense of propriety.

34. Propriety will be considered good conduct, and only feebleness will be the reason for unemployment.

35. Another word for Acceptability: adequacy, fitness, suitability, propriety, appropriateness Collins English Thesaurus

36. Are Charles and I really so susceptible to propriety, to the conventional?

37. Synonyms for Acceptability include adequacy, appropriateness, suitability, acceptableness, admissibility, fitness, propriety, satisfactoriness, permissibility and

38. Easier to detect was a sense of chivalry and propriety among the athletes.

39. Synonyms for Admissibility include permissibility, acceptability, tolerability, suitability, adequacy, appropriateness, acceptableness, propriety, fitness and

40. Synonyms for Correctness include accuracy, truth, precision, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, perfection, preciseness, propriety and definiteness

41. Synonyms for Correctitude include correctness, decency, propriety, decorum, seemliness, civility, properness, decorousness, orderliness and order

42. Synonyms for Courtliness include elegance, refinement, ceremony, breeding, correctness, courtesy, formality, propriety, stateliness and affability

43. As nouns the difference between Appropriateness and propriety is that Appropriateness is the quality or condition of being appropriate while propriety is (obsolete) the particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.

44. A case can be made for both its constitutional propriety and its administrative efficiency.

45. Those people who ignorant of propriety will pay out expense therefor early or late.

46. He stopped wearing the pins last year after press inquiries were made concerning the propriety of it.

47. All too often, though, idle talk strays beyond the bounds of propriety and good taste.

48. Though by all outward appearances a woman of propriety, she had a penchant for mischief.

49. A term is Analogous whose single signification applies with equal propriety to more than one object: as, the

50. As everything else in a kimono outfit, the knots are regulated by a number of unwritten propriety rules.