Propriety is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 252 anagrams from letters in propriety (eiopprrty).
1425-75; late Middle English propriete ownership, something owned, one's own nature (compare variant proprete property) Middle French propriété Latin proprietās p
This was dropped with propriety in conversation with Mr. Montenero.
The face of the country cannot with propriety be called hilly.
Only this very morning I read her a sermon upon 'propriety, and the fitness of things.'
Walking up to the edge of propriety and stepping over the line are all a rite of passage to self-definition.
The Weather Underground, while we certainly crossed lines of propriety and legality, we never killed or injured anybody.
But the reception they got departed from tradition and propriety.
Presidents and potential presidents have often been accused of crossing some line of propriety.
But we are disposed to vindicate the propriety of the step he took.
In an interview this week, Egeland strongly defended the propriety of delivering aid to unwholesome parts of northern Syria.
And the Parisian press, undaunted by a U.S. sense of propriety, has tried hard to figure out how attractive she may or may not be.
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