Sentence examples for propriety is from inspiring English sources

Propriety is also a sticking point.

Propriety is a matter of perspective.

But that same propriety is at odds with many of the restaurant's starters and bar snacks.

But a sense of propriety is built into the postcard images too.

Expected in a woman, propriety is often viewed as suspect in a man.

So I suppose we can feel assured that this loitering at the edge of propriety is not done heedlessly.

But I remember when the sense of propriety was strong.

"The Soviet attitude towards propriety was completely different," said Dmitri Chernetsky, a former documentary filmmaker.

He was also a man whose sense of propriety was sometimes indistinguishable from squeamishness.

Long-held conceptions of space and time — and propriety — were no longer taken for granted.

Their ideas of privacy and even propriety are better suited for the age of online dating.