Properness: alternatives and connections

The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.

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The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the c…

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The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discour…

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Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency…

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-asse…

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The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

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To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

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Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.

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The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.

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Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Management; treatment; conduct.

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Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and dut…

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper…

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Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper…

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.

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The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.

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The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.

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