Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /pɹə.ˈpɹaɪ.ə.ti/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /pɹə.ˈpɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (obsolete) The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
  2. (obsolete) A characteristic; an attribute.
  3. (now rare) A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.
  4. (obsolete) More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.
  5. The fact of possessing something; ownership.
  6. (now rare) Correct language or pronunciation.
  7. Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.
  8. Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.

Exempel

  • I was fearful of giving You a very sensible Disgust, in making You seem the Propriety of one Man, when You know Yourself ordained for the Comfort and Refreshment of Multitudes.
  • I find such a pleasure, sir, in obeying your commands, that I take care to observe them without ever debating their propriety.
  • Now, if we may, with propriety, refer to the people one question, why may we not, with equal propriety, refer another?
  • Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her.
  • The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.

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