Propriety in a sentence

People are arguing about the propriety of wearing masks or not but I suspect the theft was more about civic pride or perhaps civic disrespect and the argument should be about the propriety of stealing a flag.

As it happens, the British Foreign Office, with its sense of antique propriety and residual imperial viciousness, is the most practiced and ruthless at this kind of thing.

Dear Amy: Recently you published a question from “Perplexed,” asking about the propriety of sending holiday cards featuring photos of a deceased person.

His attorneys will also have the opportunity to file motions to dismiss the indictment by challenging the propriety of the charges against him.

Honesty and propriety in public life matter and so it was important for me to turn up and register that, and support the Committee’s findings.

In South Korea, celebrities are held to high standards of propriety.

They developed a propriety way of working with OpenAI.

Thomas recently has been at the center of a controversy regarding the propriety of Supreme Court justices receiving gifts and services from wealthy private citizens.

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said resignation in such circumstances is a matter of propriety but there is no legal right to seek removal of Kejriwal as the chief minister following his arrest.

At home, the PPP/C government and some of its top functionaries also need refresher courses on the role of the press and the need to conduct themselves with propriety.

In that case, the apex court dwelt on the propriety of adopting the procedure of originating summons to determine a case in which allegations of fraud were made.

Roughly 5.5 million people flood into the cathedral each year, and, inevitably, policing propriety has been forced to take a back seat to bag checks.

Since the new round of gymnastics between the NLC and the Federal Government began recently, there have been many arguments bordering on the propriety or otherwise of the Labour Party’s demand and also the Federal Government’s haggling.

That would be utterly in character for a president who’d have zero regard for precedent and even less for propriety.

They questioned the propriety of one state (Colorado) by its actions possibly twisting the outcome of the election — lamenting how some states would agree but others would not, leading to a hodgepodge of voter options.

When it comes to both justices, that they appear to understand — and can act on — the propriety of recusal in other cases makes their failure to do so here even less excusable.

According to the President, good virtues and propriety were the hallmarks of every culture in Nigeria, while crime is an exception.

Context is key here because partisan disputes over the propriety of certain pardons are all but baked into the power’s use and are largely informed by the letter next to a president’s name.

Democrats and Republicans spent the morning and early afternoon trading accusations and arguments about Barrett's ideological views, and the propriety of confirming her just weeks before the election.

Developing new apps across multiple vendors and clouds, each with their own propriety tools and management systems, has led to challenges in terms of security, compliance and governance.