Example sentences for: propriety

How can you use “propriety” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Clinton's lawyer David Kendall challenged the propriety of these briefings, Starr dismissively replied, "You're asking [about] press policy as opposed to constitutional issues."

  • Here is the split mind of a Henry James heroine, raised in this hemisphere with excessive propriety and then thrust, unprotected, into old and indecipherable European traditions.

  • Genuine propriety would still be nicer.

  • Departments and agencies sent their vouchers to GAO, which checked the legality, propriety, and accuracy of expenditures.

  • Nickles questioned the propriety of "NATO's objectives," calling its goal of "access to all of Serbia ...


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