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properness
noun as in decency
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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.
From BBC
He suspected that Olanna, with her English-speaking properness, waited her turn until everything was gone.
From Literature
The formality and the properness of the English was like a field day for me and Will.
From New York Times
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.
From Literature
I could wear the bright flats, but that did not imbue me with fierce properness.
From The Guardian
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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