propriety
noun
1 propriety
Correct or appropriate behavior.
synonyms: correctitude, properness.
Roget 646:
expedience,
expediency;
desirableness,
desirability
etc.
adj.;
fitness
etc.
(agreement)
23;
utility
etc.
644;
propriety;
opportunism;
advantage.
high time
etc.
(occasion)
134.
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Roget 852:
fashion,
style,
ton,
bon ton†,
society;
good society,
polite society;
monde [Fr.];
drawing-room,
civilized life,
civilization,
town,
beau monde [Fr.],
high life,
court;
world;
fashionable world,
gay world;
Vanity Fair;
show
etc.
(ostentation)
822.
manners,
breeding
etc.
(politeness)
894;
air,
demeanor
etc.
(appearance)
448;
savoir faire [Fr.];
gentlemanliness†,
gentility,
decorum,
propriety,
biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society;
Mrs.
Grundy;
punctilio;
form,
formality;
etiquette,
point of etiquette;
dress
etc.
225.
custom
etc.
613;
mode,
vogue,
go;
rage
etc.
(desire)
865;
prevailing taste;
fad,
trend,
bandwagon,
furore†,
thing,
in thing,
craze,
chic,
last word.
man of fashion,
woman of fashion,
man of the world,
woman of the world;
height of fashion,
pink of fashion,
star of fashion,
glass of fashion,
leader of fashion;
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]
etc.
(taste)
850;
the beautiful people,
the fashion set,
upper ten thousand
etc.
(nobility)
875;
elite
etc.
(distinction)
873;
smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
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Roget 922:
right;
what ought to be,
what should be;
fitness
etc.
adj.;
summum jus [Lat.].
justice,
equity;
equitableness
etc.
adj.;
propriety;
fair play,
impartiality,
measure for measure,
give and take,
lex talionis [Lat.].
Astraea†,
Nemesis,
Themis.
scales of justice,
evenhanded justice,
karma;
suum cuique [Lat.];
clear stage,
fair field and no favor,
level playing field.
morals
etc.
(duty)
926;
law
etc.
963;
honor
etc.
(probity)
939;
virtue
etc.
944.
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Roget 926:
duty,
what ought to be done,
moral obligation,
accountableness†,
liability,
onus,
responsibility;
bounden duty,
imperative duty;
call,
call of duty;
accountability.
allegiance,
fealty,
tie engagement
etc.
(promise)
768;
part;
function,
calling
etc.
(business)
625.
morality,
morals,
decalogue;
case of conscience;
conscientiousness
etc.
(probity)
939;
conscience,
inward monitor,
still small voice within,
sense of duty,
tender conscience,
superego;
the hell within
[Paradise Lost].
dueness
etc.
924;
propriety,
fitness,
seemliness,
amenability,
decorum,
to prepon;
the thing,
the proper thing;
the right thing to do,
the proper thing to do.
[Science of morals]
ethics,
ethology. ;
deontology†,
aretology†;
moral philosophy,
ethical philosophy;
casuistry,
polity.
observance,
fulfillment,
discharge,
performance,
acquittal,
satisfaction,
redemption;
good behavior.
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Roget 23:
agreement;
accord,
accordance;
unison,
harmony;
concord
etc.
714;
concordance,
concert;
understanding,
mutual understanding.
conformity
etc.
82;
conformance;
uniformity
etc.
16;
consonance,
consentaneousness†,
consistency;
congruity,
congruence;
keeping;
congeniality;
correspondence,
parallelism,
apposition,
union.
fitness,
aptness
etc.
adj.;
relevancy;
pertinence,
pertinencey†;
sortance†;
case in point;
aptitude,
coaptation†,
propriety,
applicability,
admissibility,
commensurability,
compatibility;
cognation
etc.
(relation)
9.
adaption†,
adjustment,
graduation,
accommodation;
reconciliation,
reconcilement;
assimilation.
consent
etc.
(assent)
488;
concurrence
etc.
178;
cooperation
etc.
709.
right man in the right place,
very thing;
quite the thing,
just the thing.
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Dutch: conveniëntie, fatsoen, fatsoenlijkheid, gevoeglijkheid, netheid, ordentelijkheid, welvoeglijkheid
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