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PROPRIETY

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propriety substantiv

1. justeţe; corectitudine (a limbajului, a manierelor), caracter cuviincios (al unei expresii etc.); caracter corect (al unei conduite); oportunitate (al unui demers etc.);

I doubt the propriety of refusing him mă îndoiesc dacă se face să-l refuz;

I persuaded him of the propriety of resigning am încercat să-l conving că se impunea să demisioneze.

2. (bună-)cuviinţă, decenţă;

the proprieties decenţa, convenienţele;

marriage of propriety căsătorie de convenienţă;

conventional propriety convenienţele admise;

to throw propriety to the winds a nu se sinchisi, a nu-i păsa de convenienţe; (despre femeie) a-şi da poalele peste cap;

to observe the proprieties a respecta convenienţele;

to offend / to sin against the proprieties a călca convenienţele, a şoca decenţa.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Well, then Uncle and Aunt were there to play propriety.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr. Darcy, of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I hope, I earnestly hope, that to your real safety it will be of none; but to everything else it is of the greatest consequence: to comfort, appearance, propriety, to your family, to the world.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Emma had feelings, less of curiosity than of pride or propriety, to make her resolve on not being the last to pay her respects; and she made a point of Harriet's going with her, that the worst of the business might be gone through as soon as possible.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The Crawfords laughed at the idea; and having soon agreed on the propriety of their walking quietly home and leaving the family to themselves, proposed Mr. Yates's accompanying them and spending the evening at the Parsonage.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided always that they were such commands as a lady might with propriety obey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgement alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Weston had been so very earnest in his entreaties for her arriving there as soon as possible after themselves, for the purpose of taking her opinion as to the propriety and comfort of the rooms before any other persons came, that she could not refuse him, and must therefore spend some quiet interval in the young man's company.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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