All 4 Uses of
appropriate
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- You keep on laughing and very inappropriately, allow me to tell you.†
Chpt 5.1 *inappropriately = in a manner unsuitable (not fitting) to a particular situationstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriately means not and reverses the meaning of appropriately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- To this Amalia Ivanovna very appropriately observed that she had invited those ladies, but "those ladies had not come, because those ladies are ladies and cannot come to a lady who is not a lady."†
Chpt 5.2appropriately = in a suitable (fitting) manner for a particular situation
- All his clothes were fresh from the tailor's and were all right, except for being too new and too distinctly appropriate.†
Chpt 2.5
- Those would be appropriate now, really, those are what I ought to put on now....But I am talking nonsense and forgetting what matters; I'm somehow forgetful....You see I have come to warn you, Sonia, so that you might know...that's all—that's all I came for.†
Chpt 6.8
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