Sentence examples for to propriety from inspiring English sources
noun
The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
That's the role of a satirical magazine: to stick two fingers up to propriety.
The threats to propriety and excellence — to the very "intangible" roots of Gaul — know no bounds.
And in the book you can read how White advised others to stick to propriety.
Thus began 30 years of calculated effrontery, bad taste, subversive humour and challenges to propriety.
It's absolutely true that some individuals use political correctness to disguise what is, in reality, a regressive devotion to propriety.
Total immersion, combined with an utter indifference to propriety, made Diffie one of the co-discoverers of "public key cryptography".
To act according to ritual propriety is not simply to conform to notions of appropriate behavior in this or that context.
During a recent trip to New York, to maintain propriety, I found I needed a new belt, size 34.
Chaplin not only delights in the refinement of ancien-régime manners but sharply contrasts them with the undignified pratfalls that result from efforts to conform to bourgeois propriety.
At the same time, increasing doubts as to its propriety caused it to be banned or severely limited in some countries.
To compute the dissimilarity threshold, Jarp refers to the propriety chemical structure fingerprints calculated using 'generatemd' program of ChemAxon.
