propriety [prəˈpraɪɪti]

例句:

• In male company, perhaps he did overstep the bounds of propriety.
  在清一色男性的公司里，可能他的举止确实有失得体。
  
• His marriage and family life is a model of propriety.
  他的婚姻和家庭生活都是规规矩矩的。
  
• Nobody questioned the propriety of her being there alone.
  没人认为她只身出现在那里不得体。
  
• A committee to consider the propriety of impeaching Arlington.
  来自Ld Macaulay
• Financial resource then gets dragged into propriety activities.
  来自WSJ
• The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
  来自J. Austen