Proprieties

"Proprieties," she said, giving the word which I hesitated to use.

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

The Bourgeois Proprieties don't survive the first half hour of a very clipped 79 minutes – ah, brevity, and with the unhelpful addition of a bottle of scotch to an already volatile situation, all social inhibitions are soon abandoned.

Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film 2012

Proprieties will be respected but real secrets are hard to keep.

A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

One of the great things about growing older is that I Don't Have to Give a Fuck about Proprieties anymore.

Fresh Squeezed FUZZARELLY 2008

Proprieties and con - ventions were blanked from her mind.

Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982

Satyr, there was wonderful life from midnight to dawn -- deep sympathy with which told me that I was a born Pagan, and could never be really comfortable in any modern Temple of the Proprieties.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Natural Life, but were peculiar to the Blessed, and which upon that account we may call Divine Proprieties, which God (whose Name be prais'd) bestows upon such of his Servants as he pleases_.

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

(Hear, hear) So we went into that Conference with two slogans which very well expressed its spirit -- one from the French, well known, "To know all is to forgive all"; the other given us by that brilliant Chinese, T.C. Koo, who quoted from his own classics a precept that ought to remain in all our minds: "Proprieties before arms."

Pacific Problems and Canada's Part in Them 1925

Proprieties, and it was not to be supposed that she would crave the

Fables in Slang George Ade 1905

Proprieties do not count on the East Side; nothing counts that cannot be converted into hard cash.

XI. The Sweaters of Jewtown 1890