All 3 Uses of
appropriate
in
The House of Mirth
- "You see I came after all," he said; but before she had time to answer, Mrs. Dorset, breaking away from a lifeless colloquy with her host, had stepped between them with a little gesture of appropriation.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.†
Chpt 1.6
- Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression.†
Chpt 1.7 *
Definitions:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right