Words and phrases that have a meaning related to propriety: (168 results)
Antonyms:
improperness, impropriety
Often used in the same context:
appropriateness, legality, probity, decorum, morality, tenability, integrity, impartiality, practicality, inappropriateness, disinterestedness, frivolousness, reasonableness, prudence, truthfulness, desirability, rectitude, politesse, veracity, practicability, validity, gentlemanliness, liberality, demureness, permissibility, genuineness, factuality, objectivity, tastefulness, acceptability, cogency, lawfulness, fairness, punctiliousness, impropriety, modesty, prurience, plausibility, triviality, decency, merits, competence, sanctity, trustworthiness, scrupulousness, judiciousness, properness, correctness, constitutionality, illegality, materiality, noblesse oblige, expedience, virtuousness, tactfulness, expediency, suitability, rationality, ipse dixit, outrageousness, credulity, illogicality, manliness, pompousness, germaneness, bashfulness, indignance, humaneness, turpitude, articulateness, wilfulness, circumspection, rightness, perspicuity, respectfulness, dubiousness, dandyism, coyness, arbitrariness, dutifulness, impeccability, conservativeness, unseemliness, offensiveness, fatuity, soundness, politeness, indefiniteness, rightfulness, extravagance, voluntariness, thoroughness, frivolity, partiality, civility, nefariousness, comportment, rigor, superfluity, unreasonableness, imperiousness, infallibility, proprieties, respectability, nicety, finesse, merit, conscientiousness, credibility, congruity, fidelity, justness, legitimacy
More specific:
decorousness, grace, priggishness, primness, reserve, seemliness
Appears in the definition of:
., audacious, barefaced, becoming, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, call into question, comely, comme il faut, decency, decent, decorous, decorousness, decorum, grace, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, justness, modesty, nicety, oppugn, prude, puritan, queenly, question, reserve, rightness, sedate, seemliness, seemly, staid, urbane, well, wrong
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Also try:correctitude
— Adjectives for propriety: great, equal, more, perfect, much, strict, social, greater, peculiar, moral, constitutional, more...
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