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proprieties
noun
(pro-pri-e-ty)
the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness
proprieties
noun
(pro-pri-e-ty)
conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech
proprieties
noun
(pro-pri-e-ty)
the customs and manners of polite society
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politesse
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decencies
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dandyism
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mores
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ritualism
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archaisms
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moralities
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vulgarization
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pedantry
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daintiness
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scrupulousness
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punctiliousness
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courtliness
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foppery
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cupidity
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civilities
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academicism
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effacement
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pieties
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grandiloquence
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historicism
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worldliness
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enculturation
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milieus
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liberality
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amour propre
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disinterestedness
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affectations
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fastidiousness
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virtuousness
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functionalism
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trifles
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answerability
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complicities
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demureness
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casuistry
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gentility
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bohemianism
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attitudinizing
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formalism
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harlotry
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frippery
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idiosyncrasy
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coverture
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superfluity
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indirectness
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complaisance
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alterity
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semiotic
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strictures
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noblesse
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gentlemanliness
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piousness
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intellectuality
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unities
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pompousness
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decorum
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hybridity
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artificiality
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maquillage
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onanism
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substrata
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blatancy
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adab
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flummery
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niceties
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theosophical
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absoluteness
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sovereignties
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scholasticism
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abstractionism
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artifices
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gallimaufry
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contemporaneity
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habitus
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luxuriance
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intertextuality
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philistinism
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parliamentarianism
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hifalutin
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venality
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conformity
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animality
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statecraft
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priggishness
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selfhood
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indeterminacy
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nefariousness
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dignities
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noblesse oblige
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neoclassicism
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prurience
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servility
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pettier
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accretions
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norms
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picayune
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dialectic
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effluvia
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everydayness
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proprieties
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