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propriety
Synonyms and Antonyms of propriety
- some people miss the straitlaced propriety that was largely abandoned in the 1960s
civility, courteousness, courtesy, gentilesse, gentility, graciousness, mannerliness, politeness, politesse
appropriateness, correctitude, correctness, decorousness, fitness, rightness, seemliness
attention, attentiveness, care, carefulness
character, goodness, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness, straightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness
- an etiquette columnist who insists that traditional proprieties are necessary in order to maintain a civil society
- I'm not sure about the propriety of serving champagne in these glasses
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