propriety
propriety 英 [prəˈpraɪəti] 美 [prəˈpraɪɪti]
n. 适当；礼节；得体
名词复数:proprieties
- Propriety is following what is socially acceptable in speech and behavior. If you are someone who cares about always doing the right and proper thing, your friends might accuse you of being obsessed with propriety and beg you to loosen up.
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- n. 适当；礼节；得体
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1. Nobody questioned the propriety of her being there alone.
没人认为她只身出现在那里不得体。
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2. They were careful to observe the proprieties.
他们恪守规矩。
- propriety (n.) mid-15c., "proper character, disposition," from Old French proprieté "individuality, peculiarity; property" (12c.), from Latin proprietatem (nominative proprietas) "appropriateness," also "ownership" (see property). Meaning "fitness, appropriateness" is attested from 1610s; sense of "conformity to good manners" is from 1782.
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