(n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
(n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
(n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) While ruling that there had been improper use of Schedule 7 powers, the judge commented: "It was clear that the Security Service, for entirely understandable reasons, was anxious if possible to get information which could not be regarded as tainted by torture allegations or which might confirm the propriety of a control order."
(2) These results, as well as our considerations regarding the latent time between therapy and lung reaction, and some trials on laboratory rodents allow to speak of a radiogenic pneumopathy with the proprieties of a late reaction characterized by a pneumonitis appearing previously and changing into pulmonary fibrosis.
(3) But when that verdict is given, it should be recalled that, after a shaky start, parliament gave the matter due and dutiful consideration; that it fulfilled its constitutional function properly and, for the most part, with civil propriety.
(4) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
(5) There was no way the Bush administration would want independent auditors to publish a report into the financial propriety of its Iraqi administration while the CPA was still in existence and Bremer at its head still answerable to the press.
(6) Saying that he did not know more about the data destruction beyond what has been reported, Earnest said it was "hard for me to evaluate the propriety of that."
(7) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
(8) Additionally, non-parametric methods were applied to these data in an effort to confirm the propriety of the model.
(9) McElroy and Webb had raised questions about the legal propriety of the federation's "No 2" accounts, which are said to contain £35m held by most of the 43 regional federation chiefs.
(10) An examination was made of the propriety of the existing legal provision on permissible threshold limit, of 37 degrees C in the coal mine in Japan.
(11) No black man could be elected with Trump’s life story (what levels of personal propriety a black woman would have to attain to be taken seriously don’t bear thinking about).
(12) The absorption spectra of the ethanol extracts of the pigment in each group were similar and this result supported propriety of the classification by biological characteristics.
(13) But this is not only a question of parliamentary propriety.
(14) Through these new reporting methods, communications providers will be permitted to disclose more information than ever before to their customers.” The new arrangement addresses a major grievance held by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and LinkedIn, which all joined a coalition called Reform Government Surveillance in order to pressure the administration into reassuring their customers about the propriety and legality of giving vast amounts of data to the NSA, FBI and other government agencies.
(15) Certainly, compared with the chaos surrounding the search for a new chair of the BBC Trust, the Ofsted appointment is a model of propriety.
(16) Finally, in the light of present day litigious trends, the question of the propriety of the policy is posed.
(17) That didn't seem to me to be an answer, since Trintignant is not talking about a bedside visit but about the propriety of making a spectacle out of decay and death.
(18) In the letter, Hays said that he was not consulted by the chapel staff on the plan and that there are “serious questions about the wisdom and propriety” of allowing the Adhan from the chapel tower, as the chapel “maintains an explicit Christian identity and mission”; he argued that “Christianity and Islam stand in significant theological tension with one another,” and that there would be “global repercussions” to allowing the Adhan to be broadcast from the chapel tower.
(19) He also appeared to be launching his threatened "tsunami" on Fifa, making a string of claims against the Fifa president's propriety.
(20) Although there is still further material to be checked, I am already clear that there are areas where the current guidance on propriety and the management of Ministerial Private Offices needs to be strengthened.
Prudish
Definition:
(a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of his work – including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979) and Ghostbusters (1984), all of which he co-wrote, and Caddyshack (1980), which he co-wrote and directed – changed the course of US film comedy, even if the prudish might argue that it was not for the better.
(2) This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.
(3) Read says that while his father operated in louche artistic circles and had "ditched his first wife to be with my mother, slightly in the liberated spirit of Shelley or Gauguin", he had been born and brought up in the 19th century and deep down had a "rather prudish" approach to life.
(4) Recent news regarding Ira Sachs’ new film Love Is Strange is a prime example of how age classification systems can smother art under bigoted and prudish anxieties.
(5) Emin's beautiful body is her one great idea, but I suspect that she is rather prudish, which means that there are limits to the use she can make of her body and its rackety past.
(6) I worry because I find myself siding with Don over Megan and given the selfish, prudish, treachorous, patriarchal figure he is I know this ain't right.
(7) Apart from physiological flushes represented by emotional or prudish blushing, post-prandial flushes and menopausal hot flushes, various pathologic flushes exist of various etiologies: endocrine, dysmetabolic, histaminic and iatrogenic.
(8) Liekens has said the UK has been "too prudish for too long" about sex education.
(9) For a humorist who came on the scene in the 1960s, Coren was surprisingly prudish.
(10) In the UK, we are still slightly discomfited by the idea of baring all in a confessional essay, partly, one presumes, because we are restrained by a sort of cultural prudishness, but also because we do not wish to appear self-indulgent.
(11) I had friends who lost their virginity at 13, and I’d be like, ‘Disgusting!’” Despite her prudishness, as soon as Peake started to act, she was stereotyped.
(12) I half shouted to a rep, ‘I’m not singing that’ and he said ‘yeah it is a bit naughty’, as if I was being prudish.
(13) I am asking, if Christianity managed to imbue Anglo-Saxon cultures with this prudishness, why did the moral strictures of any other religious system not imbue their cultures?"
(14) "You don't think Islam has had just as much an effect on prudishness?"
(15) Facebook has been accused of a lot of things, from riding roughshod over people’s privacy to prudishly censoring the most innocuous of photographs.
(16) She will insist she is not arguing for "prudishness or hankering after some rose-tinted picture of childhood", but for families and children that can negotiate issues of sexuality with dignity and respect.
(17) It is hard to imagine a scandal of Claridge’s proportions kicking off over here – not because Americans are less prudish than Brits, but because breastfeeding in public is clearly just a scheduling issue, and if New Yorkers understand anything it’s the Primacy of the Schedule.
(18) 'I'm really not prudish about doing nudity,' she continues.
(19) Galleguillos said his tweets – calling Rentería a “weeping negrito” and attacking “prudish, timid hypocrites” – were sent “in good faith … I called him negrito with affection, caringly, because he cried, the man cried.
(20) Experts warned that Seek McCartney’s approval should not necessarily be hailed as a sign of a relaxation of censors’ usually prudish attitudes.