proprieties

Example Sentences

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He was concerned that if he died intestate, his proprieties would not be passed to Li.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Little Richard was a challenge to 1950s proprieties: to segregation, to musical decorum, to chastity, to straightness.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

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

Did you know that “stickler” was another name for the second, whose chief responsibility, after all, was to make sure that all the proprieties were strictly observed?

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2015

Father had warned me that demons sometimes do not have a feeling for the proprieties.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep