seemliness

Example Sentences

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Seemliness is a light, remote, and less important form of propriety.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Seemliness requires this, and truth requires it also: for how can the Narrator otherwise be trusted?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

Seemliness is conduct which befits one's character and standards.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

Seemliness, however, can be predicated of a society.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham