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| censor |
one who examines personal correspondence of soldiers or prisoners in order to delete information considered a threat to security or propriety. [1/6 definitions] |
| compunction |
uneasiness about the propriety or suitability of an action; qualm. [1/2 definitions] |
| concede |
to acknowledge the truth, justice, or propriety of; admit. [1/3 definitions] |
| decency |
conformity to commonly recognized standards of modesty, good taste, and the like; propriety; decorum. [1/3 definitions] |
| decorum |
properness of behavior, manner, appearance, or the like; dignity; propriety. |
| disgust |
to offend the sense of morality or propriety of (someone). [1/3 definitions] |
| formal |
suggesting or displaying refinement or elegance combined with propriety, sometimes at the expense of emotional or physical comfort. [1/9 definitions] |
| indecent |
not in accord with accepted standards of morality, propriety, or taste; improper or vulgar. |
| irregular |
not conforming to a standard, as of law, propriety, method, or custom. [1/10 definitions] |
| licentious |
not within the bounds of morality or propriety, esp. with regard to sexual conduct; immoral; lewd. |
| modesty |
decency or propriety in behavior, dress, speech, and the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| Mrs. Grundy |
in Tom Morton's eighteenth-century play Speed the Plough, a character who never appears, but who is known as a stern, moralistic upholder of propriety. [1/2 definitions] |
| questionable |
of doubtful honesty, legality, or propriety. [1/3 definitions] |
| rectitude |
moral or ethical propriety; uprightness. [1/3 definitions] |
| rightness |
propriety; suitability. [1/3 definitions] |
| seemly |
in accord with decency and propriety; suitable; fitting; decorous. [1/3 definitions] |
| Victorian |
of or having the middle-class preoccupation with respectability and propriety that is considered typical of England in that period. [1/4 definitions] |
| vulgar |
lacking in taste, propriety, or refinement; coarse; crude. [1/4 definitions] |
| vulgarity |
an act, utterance, condition, or quality that offends good taste, manners, and propriety. |
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