Dictionary entry

Propriety

Pronunciation: /prəˈprʌɪəti/

Pronunciation

/prəˈprʌɪəti/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ထုံးနည်းမှန်ခြင်း။ကျင့်ဝတ်မှန်ခြင်း။လျော်ကန်သင့်မြတ်ခြင်း။ထူးခြားသောဂုဏ်သတ္တိ။ကိုယ်ပိုင်ပစ္စည်းဥစ္စာ။

Definition

propriety /prǝ'praÇǝti/ n ( fml ) ၁။ (က) [U] ရည္မြန္မႈ။ have no sense of propriety ❍ behave with perfect propriety ❍ The way tourists dress sometimes offends local standards of propriety. (ခ) the proprieties [ pl ] အေသးစိတ္လိုက္နာဖြယ္ရာ က်င့္ဝတ္၊ စည္းကမ္း။ She was careful to observe the proprieties. ❍ The company had acted in accordance with all legal proprieties. ၂။ [U] ~ (of sth) သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္မႈ။ မွန္ကန္မႈ။ A social worker questioned the propriety of separating children from their parents.

Examples

  1. She doubted the propriety of letting him buy her presents.