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formal adjective accepted, according to established form, affected, approved, businesslike, ceremonial, confirmed, conventional, customary, decorous, fixed, following established custom, following established form, following established rules, formalis, formalistic, in accorrance with conventional requirements, inflexible, mannered, observant of form, official, polite, pompous, prim, proper, reserved, rigid, ritual, ritualistic, set, starched, stiff, stilted, systematic, traditional, unbending, uncompromising Associated concepts: formal acceptance, formal charges, forral defect, formal party See also: official, orthodox, perfunctory, proper, punctilious, rigid, solemn, strict How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita, parents of teens attending this month's winter formals were required to sign permission slips that reinforced the district's directives. Commenting on reports that some private schools had cancelled their formals amid concern about parents giving alcohol to underage students at pre-formal parties, Paul Dillon, of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, said it was naive of parents to believe they could control the amount drunk at parties. Schlepping a resolution from formal to informal meetings before going back to formals implies that the language of the text is not acceptable to at least one of the delegations. |
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