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properness

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Example Sentences

But growing up in a house full of my dad's records I always aspired to the heavy properness of LPs.

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He suspected that Olanna, with her English-speaking properness, waited her turn until everything was gone.

The formality and the properness of the English was like a field day for me and Will.

Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.

I could wear the bright flats, but that did not imbue me with fierce properness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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