propriety

The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after Eisman turned up wearing something that violated the Wall Street golfer’s notion of propriety.

If there were any doubt left, the painful images of the White House literally being torn down have made it crystal clear: The president is not the least concerned about the pretense of propriety.

“Reasonable minds will disagree about the propriety of the President’s National Guard deployment in Portland,” Nelson wrote.

"There was a collective failure to exercise ethical judgment about the purpose of undercover policing and the propriety of reporting on family justice campaigns," he said.

Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.