Etiquette
['etɪket;etɪ'ket] or ['ɛtɪkɛt]
Definition
(n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prescribed form (of behavior, as that set down on a card or ticket on the occasion of ceremonies at court), fashionable ceremony, ceremonial code, forms of good breeding, conventional decorum.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manners, breeding, fashion, conventionality
ANT:boorishness, rudeness, misobservance, singularity, nonconformance
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Definition
n. forms of ceremony or decorum: ceremony: the unwritten laws of courtesy observed between members of the same profession as 'medical etiquette.'
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed.
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Examples
- Old New York scrupulously observed the etiquette of hospitality, and no discussion with a guest was ever allowed to degenerate into a disagreement. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Etiquette required that she should wait, immovable as an idol, while the men who wished to converse with her succeeded each other at her side. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She wondered, indeed, at his thinking it necessary to do so; but supposed it to be the proper etiquette. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mrs. Vincy sprang to the window and opened it in an instant, thinking only of Fred and not of medical etiquette. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They enjoyed about equally the mysterious privilege of medical reputation, and concealed with much etiquette their contempt for each other's skill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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