propriety
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He also tightened the rules so that serving ministers had to consider "the need to maintain the public's confidence in the standard of propriety" when accepting gifts.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
An all-suffusing misplaced sense of propriety shouldn’t stop us from seeing the truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
For the sake of propriety — Paley was one of the 20th century’s most powerful media paschas — his indiscretions were kept quiet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
Does it reflect a schism within the military over its propriety?
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
Contrary to law and decent propriety, Miss Lavinia had been out for a gallop on the Common.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
He was concerned that if he died intestate, his proprieties would not be passed to Li.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
White says that the song was a declaration that the White Stripes weren’t going to observe punk proprieties.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
He allowed himself to be governed by the habits, proprieties and slower time scale of the Arab world.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2012
"I think the same same proprieties should have been followed as for Charles and Diana's wedding and that was that all former prime ministers should be invited."
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2011
Upon arrival in the Himalaya, Pittman appeared to adhere as closely as possible to the proprieties of high society.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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