| 单词 | propriety |
| 释义 | pro·pri·e·ty 1. a. obsolete < the baseness of thy fear that makes thee strangle thy propriety — Shakespeare > b. obsolete 2. a. obsolete b. obsolete 3. a. obsolete b. obsolete 4. < not so easy to see the propriety in an image which divests a snake of “winter weeds” — T.S.Eliot > < propriety and necessity of preventing interference with the course of justice by premature statement, argument, or intimidation — O.W.Holmes †1935 > 5. a. < passionately, deeply devoted to propriety … one of the most formal high United States officers in Europe — Time > < many of the topics denied by propriety to the newspaper's columns are considered suitable in a barbershop atmosphere — G.S.Perry > often < a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety — Time > < in her re-creation of the Victorian age she antedates … the victory of bourgeois propriety over the more raffish and glaring manners of the Regency — R.E.Roberts > b. proprieties plural < they talked the stupid, polite conversation that occurs between strangers; and then, the proprieties satisfied, … drifted back into the realm of music — Louis Bromfield > < feels compelled to observe the established proprieties of textbook writing — J.C.Cooley > |
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