proprieties

The middle class is furious, or at least as furious as middle-class proprieties allow.

I dare not think how the theme might have been treated in French hands, but Mr. Harcourt is very firm about the proprieties.

The proprieties of society prevent me from repeating what has come to my ears from the lips or pens of distinguished clerics.

The proprieties did not matter with this bather, who p. 40soon learnt how to splash us.

She affected outr fashion in dress, and was always ready to lead a revolt against established proprieties.

He had drank that day, and was not so easily managed as usual, and she had a hard task to hold him to his proprieties.