noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Kids today have no sense of propriety .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A case can be made for both its constitutional propriety and its administrative efficiency.
▪
Are Charles and I really so susceptible to propriety , to the conventional?
▪
But the residents are inordinately preoccupied with propriety , and nothing at all is funny.
▪
Religions classically struggle with this same divided consciousness about order and chaos, balance and exuberance, propriety and spontaneity.
▪
They, or at least the Quakers who lived in our town, had become paragons of propriety .