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• The Local Rules do not address the propriety of surreplies or surresponses.1995, Charles Harold Haden II, Hunt v. US (CIR), 889 F. Supp. 248. From the entry surresponse
• They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.1967, The Phi Delta Kappan - Volume 49, Issues 1-10, page 282. From the entry understep
• And the comedy will make possible a larger decorum, the very propriety of “natural” in the poem.1965, Thomas Kranidas, “Decorum in the Verse”, in The Fierce Equation: A Study of Milton’s Decorum (Studies in English Literature; volume…. From the entry interactment
• The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.2025 August 10, Molly Jong-Fast, “Donald Trump, Julian Fellowes and the Gilded Age Finale”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry millinery
• Tattoos, in particular, are not the radical brandings, the bold violations of flesh and propriety, they once were.2008 May 18, Mitch Keller, “Ink-Stained and Loving It”, in New York Times. From the entry branding
• Fichus were particularly popular in warmer climates at a time when propriety dictated that a lady's shoulders be fully covered until evening.2009, Dorothy Denneen Volo, James M. Volo, “The Look: Fashion and Women’s Clothing”, in Daily Life in Civil War America (Greenwood Press…. From the entry fichu
• Bradly banged pots about the stove, preparing the evening meal, to relieve himself of an outraged sense of propriety at Podson's amative presumption.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 151. From the entry amative
• Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum, might approach its utmost boundaries.1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria. From the entry indecorum
• Some say San Diego's recent growth strains morality; if the growth-quality proprieties are not restored, the rainbow's end will become only a tantalizing vision, visible but inaccessible.1992, Michael Grant, Charles William Ross, San Diego Tapestry, page 123. From the entry rainbow's end
• Even the recognition that commess is a pervasive feature of village life does not affect the judgment that it is alien to respectability, to mainstream morality and behavioral propriety.1987, Hymie Rubenstein, Coping with poverty: adaptive strategies in a Caribbean village. From the entry commess

Meaning of propriety

1. noun The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
2. noun A characteristic; an attribute.
3. noun A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.

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How do you use propriety in a sentence?

Propriety is used as a noun. For example: “Polk.²⁷ The same scrupulous regard for propriety is shown in his refusal to invest in government securities a certain sum of money belonging to his nephew and ward, Marshall T.”

What is a short sentence with propriety?

“The Local Rules do not address the propriety of surreplies or surresponses.”

What does propriety mean?

Propriety means the particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.