(n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(2) Johann Hari, who has written for the Independent over the past decade, s aid in a blogpost entitled "Interview etiquette" , written late on Monday, that when "I've interviewed a writer" he had "occasionally" chosen to quote "the idea as they expressed it in writing, rather than how they expressed it in speech" to make their thoughts clearer.
(3) It might be really sordid and bad sexual etiquette, but whatever else it is, it is not rape or you bankrupt the term rape of all meaning."
(4) Meanwhile, a comment piece in the Sydney Daily Telegraph accuses the British press of honouring "an antiquated code of etiquette" by not publishing the image.
(5) Most of them were habituated – that is, used to, human observers with an understanding of gorilla etiquette – but misunderstandings sometimes occur.
(6) To study patient preferences on physician attire and etiquette, we interviewed 200 patients on the general medical services of teaching hospitals in Boston and San Francisco.
(7) Four (2.6%) had acceptable etiquette, and 149 (96.8%) had bad respiratory etiquette.
(8) The Sherpas believed the Europeans had dangerously breached mountain etiquette by moving across ropes that were being fixed when they'd been asked to wait; during the argument, a Sherpa waved an ice axe threateningly and the European called him a "motherfucker".
(9) Just about everything – from what to serve, to how to eat, nothing brings out more social judgment than nibbles etiquette.
(10) She spellchecks on Twitter Asked for etiquette tips on how to stay classy online, Stewart advised the audience to try not to misspell on social media.
(11) Updated at 4.42pm BST 4.17pm BST My colleague Paul Harris has been considering the Romney tapes and in this post, he gets at what's so toxic about them – voters do not like a candidate who "talks about them behind their backs": In many ways the true horror of Mitt Romney's secretly recorded remarks made at a private fundraiser is that they are a terrible breach of etiquette.
(12) The Respect MP George Galloway has been criticised by the leader of his party for suggesting that the rape allegations facing the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange amount to little more than "really bad manners" and "bad sexual etiquette".
(13) His perfect manners were based not on etiquette but on sensitivity to others.
(14) But back in the General Staff's Versailles-like HQ, among the columns, frescos and sweeping staircases, the Fragonards and the Bouchers on the walls and the marble floors underfoot, the aristocrats and the officer class – their faces mean, smug, scarred or fat – trade ghastly obscenities about acceptable death tolls and national honour, their moral universe and patterns of thought throttled by protocol, precedent, military codes and banal social etiquette.
(15) Smythson does, after all, advise customers on etiquette.
(16) Shame, especially, was to be worked out according to the best codes of public-school etiquette, in the privacy of one's mental dormitory.
(17) He too was West Ham and he profanely schooled me in the breached etiquettes of Ince's departure – "You don't say you'll sign a new contract then show up on the back pages in a Man U shirt."
(18) This just doesn't sound like the BBC I know where knowledge – especially about what your rivals and competitors are up to – is power; and it's perhaps the first indication that Entwistle was already imprisoned by organisational etiquette.
(19) They also showed an immediate grasp of Twitter etiquette by using the blogging site as a window into a private life – Wendi_Deng teased her "husband" about the speed with which he gained followers – in just three days he has over 90,000 followers.
(20) Meetings would be held seated on the floor in a circle, erasing all signs of hierarchy that traditionally has been part of Afghan court etiquette.
Solecism
Definition:
(n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
(n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
(2) This study presents a model which does not perpetuate this solecism.
(3) Seven methodological solecisms have clouded judgment over the question of lead toxicity at low dose: worship of the sacrament of p = 0.05; inaccurate causal modeling; drawing conclusions from studies with inadequate power; positing phantom covariates; underestimating the importance of "small" effects; demanding proof of causality; and evaluating studies in isolation.