All 4 Uses of
appropriate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Three turnkeys who entered responsive to a bell she rang, echoed the sentiment, and one added, "For the love of Liberty;" which sounded in that place like an inappropriate conclusion.†
Chpt 3.1inappropriate = unsuitable (not fitting) for a particular situationstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners and gloom, so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor and misery through which they were seen, that Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had got somebody to scrawl it up for him, however, who had squeezed Death in with most inappropriate difficulty.†
Chpt 3.5 *
- Which Farmer-General, carrying an appropriate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind—always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt.†
Chpt 2.7
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
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(3)
(appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds) to set aside for a particular use