formality
Example Sentences
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Formality is out of place in Bet Hatikva.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Formality has its place, and should be embraced when you're in the mood for it.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2021
Formality is often a waist-up enterprise, or an intentional choice that adds momentary brightness to a world that feels more and more like a communal endurance piece with each passing day.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2021
Formality has so much power: the most formal person sets the rules and everyone tries like crazy to meet and anticipate them, like sheep trying to avoid a fence that isn’t really electrified.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2019
They had hardly made an End of reading it, ere the whole Company, and more than he had invited, came in, and were receiv’d with a great deal of Formality and Magnificence.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
Vocabulary lists containing formality
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Shape Up: Form
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And Then There Were None
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