All 4 Uses of
appropriate
in
1984 by Orwell
- Some nosing zealot in the Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department) might start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fashioned pen, what he had been writing — and then drop a hint in the appropriate quarter.
p. 28..7appropriate = applicable or relevant
- Winston dialled 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay.
p. 38..6
- As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube.
p. 39..6appropriate = applicable
- In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war.
p. 192..6 *appropriate = fitting (suitable)
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation