Both Uses of
appropriate
in
Main Street
- Maud Dyer granted that the city hall wasn't "so very nice," yet, as Dave said, there was no use doing anything about it till they received an appropriation from the state and combined a new city hall with a national guard armory.†
Chpt 11 *
- It was said that she was not altogether an elevating influence in the way she glanced at men; that she would as soon take away a legally appropriated husband as not; that if there WAS any Mr. Swiftwaite, "it certainly was strange that nobody seemed to know anything about him!"†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right