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it is appropriate
Definition
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
- The inappropriate force of his anger and lack of ability to control or channel it reflect a primary weakness of personality structure....4 — The Corner (50% in)
- Wearing an open-necked shirt (borrowed from Mr. Meier) and blue jeans rolled up at the cuffs, he looked as lonely and inappropriate as a seagull in a wheat field.4 — The Corner (23% in)
- Even inappropriate.4 — The Corner (97% in)
There are no more uses of "appropriate" flagged with this meaning in In Cold Blood.
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- Inevitable, and appropriate.2 — Persons Unknown (3% in)
- That settled, they then selected a gaudy array of jackets and slacks regarded as appropriate for what was to be, according to Dick, a Florida honeymoon.2 — Persons Unknown (26% in)
- The word, faintly present upon a sun-warped sign, seemed appropriate to the place it publicized, which was, as Harold Nye wrote in his official K.B.I. report, "run-down and shabby, the lowest type of hotel or rooming house."3 — Answer (17% in)
There are no more uses of "appropriate" in In Cold Blood.
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