All 15 Uses of
appropriate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- All such questions are utterly inappropriate for a mind created with an idea of only three dimensions.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1) *
- All this may have arisen indirectly and unconsciously from the secret stings of his conscience for the money of Katerina Ivanovna that he had dishonestly appropriated.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- And from whom did you …. appropriate it?†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Yes, I consider that I practically stole it, but, if you prefer, I 'appropriated it.'†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- To be more precise: You have told us at last your secret, in your words, so 'disgraceful,' though in reality—that is, of course, comparatively speaking—this action, that is, the appropriation of three thousand roubles belonging to some one else, and, of course, only for a time is, in my view at least, only an act of the greatest recklessness and not so disgraceful, when one takes into consideration your character….
Chpt 9 (definition 2) *appropriation = taking
- "What is there disgraceful, to your thinking, in your having set aside half of the three thousand you had discreditably, if you prefer, 'disgracefully,' appropriated?†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- I appropriate three thousand entrusted to my honor, I spend it on a spree, say I spend it all, and next morning I go to her and say, 'Katya, I've done wrong, I've squandered your three thousand,' well, is that right?†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- But many quite irrelevant and inappropriate thoughts sometimes occur even to a prisoner when he is being led out to execution.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- He attributed the tragic crime to the habits that had become ingrained by ages of serfdom and the distressed condition of Russia, due to the lack of appropriate institutions.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- 'Ethics!' and others equally inappropriate."†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- He looked at her, saw clearly what was in her mind (he's admitted here before you that he understood it all), appropriated that three thousand unconditionally, and squandered it in two days with the new object of his affections.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- While I have that money on me, he said, I am a scoundrel, not a thief, for I can always go to my insulted betrothed, and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can always say to her, 'You see, I've squandered half your money, and shown I am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel' (I use the prisoner's own expressions), 'but though I am a scoundrel, I am not a thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn't have brought you back this half of the…†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- After a month of hopeless love and moral degradation, during which he betrayed his betrothed and appropriated money entrusted to his honor, the prisoner was driven almost to frenzy, almost to madness by continual jealousy—and of whom?†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- But not having a shadow of the motive that the prisoner had for the murder—hatred, jealousy, and so on—Smerdyakov could only have murdered him for the sake of gain, in order to appropriate the three thousand roubles he had seen his master put in the envelope.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- He only touched again, lightly and ironically, on "romancing" and "psychology," and in an appropriate place quoted, "Jupiter, you are angry, therefore you are wrong," which provoked a burst of approving laughter in the audience, for Ippolit Kirillovitch was by no means like Jupiter.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2) (appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right