All 5 Uses of
appropriate
in
Nine Stories
- When the wealthy missionary couple refused (from a religious conviction) to pay the ransom for their son, the bandits, signally piqued, placed the little fellow's head in a carpenter's vise and gave the appropriate lever several turns to the right.†
Story 4
- As a precaution against breaking my bogus mother's heart, I planned to take her into my underworld employ in some undefined but appropriately regal capacity.†
Story 4
- The Chief parked the bus on the comer in the Sixties appropriate to the occasion.†
Story 4
- putting on my blue suit, which I thought appropriate for an instructor on the opening day of school,
Story 8 *appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- It covered a little more than three pages: Diary for October 27, 1952 Property of Theodore McArdle 412 A Deck Appropriate and pleasant reward if finder promptly returns to Theodore McArdle.†
Story 9
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation