All 7 Uses of
appropriate
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Rose Red
- Such as my bosom may be, and I might remind you-as if it's necessary-that Miss Pauling, our ship's entertainer, and a guest I notice who has come to address you most informally, John, has a substantially greater bosom than I, and is in a mood to display her wares in what I consider, quite frankly, a most inappropriate and lascivious way.†
Chpt 2inappropriate = 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.
- A waitress, she was dressed in a black costume appropriate to her service, with a white apron and a firmly pressed white collar buttoned nearly to choking.
Chpt 2 *appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- At any rate, I committed this mistake ( John is right, of course) and must have shown to all those looking a good deal of bills within that small purse, for John had just exchanged some dollars upon our arrival and had provided me appropriate spending money.
Chpt 3
- Farther down the corridor, another back side of a mirror, this time inappropriately looking in on the sink, toilet and bath.†
Chpt 8inappropriately = 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.
- I knew that I still secretly looked at Sukeena in ways and at times that were more appropriate for a man.†
Chpt 5
- there's that word "conceive" again, appropriate as ever!†
Chpt 6
- Across the Parlor from where Douglas swung from the hemp, his distorted eyeballs nearly bursting from their sockets, he stared (if the word is appropriate here) at the life-sized portrait of his former partner, my husband, who, it just so happens (and some say that Douglas surely knew this), was at that very moment pulling into the driveway and up to the house returning home.†
Chpt 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