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appropriate
in
The Blind Assassin
(Edited)

There was some local objection to Miss Fitzsimmons — a woman wasn't considered appropriate for the subject — but Father steamrollered the meeting of potential sponsors: wasn't Miss Loring herself a woman, he asked?
p. 145.6

appropriate = suitable (fitting for the situation)
I was wearing the outfit Winifred had thought appropriate for the occasion, which was a nightgown of satin in a shade of salmon pink, with a delicate lace trim of cobweb grey.
p. 241.8 *

appropriate = suitable (fitting)
Appropriate enough, I suppose.
p. 284.1

appropriate = suitable (fitting for the situation)
Worrying about the appropriateness of this or that, for this or that hour of the day.
p. 303.1

appropriateness = suitability (degree to which something was fitting to the situation)
Amid widespread panic, the Lizard Men had made parts of Eurasia and South America their slave colonies, appropriating the younger women for their hellish breeding experiments and burying the corpses of the men in enormous pits, after eating the parts of them they preferred.
p. 350.9 *

appropriating = taking
To the task at hand. At hand is appropriate: sometimes it seems to me that it's only my hand writing, not the rest of me; that my hand has taken on a life of its own, and will keep on going even if severed from the rest of me, like some embalmed, enchanted Egyptian fetish or the dried rabbit claws men used to suspend from their car mirrors for luck.
p. 373.3

appropriate = suitable (fitting for the situation)
She did not make the obvious point that such things may have been all very well for Christ but they were not appropriate in a sixteen-year-old girl.
p. 375.6

appropriate = suitable (fitting)

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(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
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

appropriate in The Blind Assassin (Edited)

appropriate
in
The Blind Assassin
(Edited)