All 8 Uses of

appropriate
in
The Adventures of Augie March

Maybe I ought to say my livery, since Mr. and Mrs. Renling saw to it that I was appropriately dressed, in fact made a clotheshorse of me, advancing the money and picking out the tweeds and flannels, plaids, foulards, sport shoes, woven shoes Mexican style, and shirts and handkerchiefs—in the right taste for waiting on a smooth trade of mostly British inclination.†
Chpt 8 *

appropriately = in a suitable (fitting) manner for a particular situation

Something big would have to be done for her one of these days, I thought; I'd have to decide what was appropriate, and I could now swing it by myself, having the money.
Chpt 26

appropriate = suitable (fitting)

Stella and Charlotte were wearing mink stoles, Simon a double-breasted plaid and crocodile shoes, and I a camel's-hair coat, so that we looked appropriately gorgeous to pass in one of those Italian portrait crowds of gold and jewels.†
Chpt 26

appropriately = in a suitable (fitting) manner for a particular situation

Yes, yes, I knew the truth had to be appropriate somewhere, but was this the place for it?†
Chpt 15

I suppose if you pass the night with a woman in a deserted mountain place there's only one appropriate thing, according to the secret urging of the world.†
Chpt 18

Did Sophie think I didn't want to have a wife, and sons and daughters, or be busy at my appropriate daily work?†
Chpt 22

You see, there was all the immenso giubbilo of homecoming and being saved from the sea and this Basteshaw, a romantic survivor and escapee; it was appropriate there should be cries of Thanksgiving as if written down by Franz Joseph Haydn and sung by the Schola Cantorum, and so on.†
Chpt 26

Definitions:

(1) (appropriate as in: it is appropriate)
suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
(2) (appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture)
to take without asking -- often without right
(3) (appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds)
to set aside for a particular use