'standards of propriety' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are talking about accepted rules, conventions, or personal behavior that is considered appropriate in a particular social setting. For example, "At the office, it's important to maintain high standards of propriety to ensure a comfortable and professional working atmosphere."
Who can define "current recognised standards of propriety"?
However, The Times's standards of propriety required that one word be changed.
A jury must decide, based on "current recognised standards of propriety".
We've lowered our standards of propriety and morality till we realize we've been wallowing in it.
He said the two had been "living together as husband and wife," which "transgresses the Malawian recognized standards of propriety".
Case law has decided that it's for a jury to decide, based on 'current recognised standards of propriety'.
Another reading of Smith, which attributes a sentimentalist FA theory to him, has his standard of propriety determined by an essentially normative notion of an impartial spectator.
As the son of this complex figure, I felt I had to maintain a certain standard of propriety.
Kellner took his son to a modesty committee, called vaad hatznius, which enforces standards of sexual propriety among Borough Park's hundred thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews, the majority of them Hasidic.
He insufficiently valued the tragedies; he missed the essence of much of the poetry; and he "reduced everything to the common standard of conventional propriety the most exquisite refinement or sublimity produced an effect on his mind, only as they could be translated into the language of measured prose".
And when the papers were exceedingly coarse, brash, or harshly militant — that is, when they violated even the counterculture's loose standards of civility and propriety — they gave people good cause to turn their noses at the movement.
