Words similar to propriety

Example sentences for: propriety

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If your child was old enough to witness the candy bin caper and wondered why the woman was eating from the bin, you would have been perfectly within the bounds of propriety to say, "You are quite right.
Since the late 1930s, the principle of freedom of contract has given way to the propriety of the state and federal measures to protect working people on the job.
1.413-14), even the gentlest reader may be forgiven for wondering what in the name of propriety is going on in the armies of Austria and France, when the Bastard informs King John that
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.
Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.