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How to use proprieties in a sentence

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The rule of law was dispensed with and constitutional proprieties were cast aside.
Was this formulation a scrupulous observance of proprieties or an elegant way of passing the buck?
Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once.
I shall never marry you, or consort with you beyond obligational social proprieties beyond this so called adventure.
The strict proprieties of time and place and my own timidity meant that I was only a day-tripper in this world, never a candidate for resident status.
The equation between proper dress and proper speech is made explicitly in Victorian etiquette manuals, where proprieties of language are spoken of as if they were cosmetics.
By poking fun at the bodies or habits of the powerful, comic cards could attack social proprieties and conventions without accountability or retribution.
The civil service has been politicised and emasculated to the point where it stands supinely by while constitutional proprieties are systematically shredded one by one.
She'd thought that as an apprentice she'd be able to escape from some of the more uncomfortable luxuries of her wealthy background, but even at the Temple proprieties ruled.
Only in Japan, a country which requires its workers to be devotedly institutionalised, is there a similar ritual of shared loosening of professional proprieties.
Even at the Commonwealth level, there were times when the Chief Justice thought he had a responsibility to throw the proprieties and conventions to the wind.
Moral and natural proprieties are usually sacrificed for civil proprieties.
Feel the deep calming effect of this soft fluid with wonderful anti-stress proprieties. It protects and smoothes down the skin.
Project: improvement of the behaviour to fatigue of corrugated steels with anti-seismic proprieties.
However, the propagation proprieties of radio waves ruled by laws of physics mean that radio frequencies do not respect national borders.
Although the epoxy will be very firm after 48 hours, its stain proof proprieties will be optimally effective as of the 14th day.
Only the women remain who, one after another must brave proprieties and interdictions just to save their land: Mogador.
But you must bear in mind that the more the proprieties of solvent-based varnishes improve in terms of ease of application, drying, brilliance and hold, the more the gap automatically widens with water-based polishes.
This material is compatible and has good barrier proprieties to offer to cosmetic-applications similar to material originating from traditional plastics such as polyester.
A recent study completed in patients with RDEB using Trimethoprim, another antibiotic that has additional anti-inflammatory proprieties, revealed a great improvement in the rate of wound healing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You may be thankful it was my indecorous, unfeminine self, and not any of the proprieties.
The proprieties did not matter with this bather, who p. 40soon learnt how to splash us.
Extravagance is to be regarded as vulgarity and ignorance of nuptial proprieties.
Upon this, and this only, was he disregardful of the proprieties.
Only milk-and-water proprieties, tamely-virtuous platitudes.
There was no use disputing proprieties with the overwise girl.
It seems to me that some other way of advertising it might be devised, which would be just as conspicuous and yet not so trying to the proprieties.
Adrienne was unusually skillful with the needle, and her taste had been so highly cultivated, as to make her a perfect mistress of all the proprieties of patterns.
I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me.
With a few lessons, she had learned to do the proprieties of Miss Ophelia's chamber in a way with which even that particular lady could find no fault.
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