Sentence examples for not propriety from inspiring English sources

But the restraint evident is not propriety or stiffness: it is more along the lines of an attractive young mother who has conscientiously recovered her figure.

She said: "a pig doesn't know propriety, doesn't try to please, he takes what's on offer without thinking of consequences, he has no master, no vanity and couldn't care less about hierarchy and social order.

Not that propriety isn't important, particularly when chaos threatens.

The issue is not the propriety of Comey's letter.

The term derives from Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), a British editor, whose Family Shakespeare was cleansed of "those expressions which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family".

Though today's decision was technical and narrow -- it concerned only whether the lower-court judge had acted properly in ruling that the files were eligible to be unsealed, not the propriety of opening church-related court records to the public -- it represented a victory for the diocese.

Rev. A. B. Whatton, who translated Venus in sole visa from Latin, assumed that Horrocks's comment about "business of the highest importance which, for these ornamental pursuits, I could not with propriety neglect" must have referred to the duties of a curate.

His daughter has learned that lesson: she doesn't let propriety blunt her memories.

Turnbull says he did not see any "propriety" issue here.

But Thais seem to think of the king as an arbiter of political propriety, not an offender against it.

This they have to do in defence of not only the propriety of their policies, but also the legitimacy of the Army itself.