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proper Adjective

— The proper way, place, use, etc. is the right one. What is the proper way to write a letter? — If something is proper, it is polite or acceptable. It's not proper for you to live alone like this. She was a very proper young lady. Why don't you get a proper job at a good company? — The mathx/math proper is the main or important part of mathx/math, not the parts near it. We stayed in a village and only went into the city proper during the day.

proper

— adjective marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness proper medical treatment proper manners — adjective having all the qualities typical of the thing specified wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack he finally has a proper job — adjective limited to the thing specified the city proper his claim is connected with the deed proper — adjective (= right) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs everything in its proper place the right man for the job she is not suitable for the position

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right appropriate correct fit suitable just fitting decent good true reasonable due exact becoming seemly own real fair righteous legitimate adequate accurate valid regular honest respectable moderate legal expedient convenient befitting tidy neat lawful genuine formal equitable worthy well virtuous upright truthful timely same rightful perfect orderly opportune normal natural

Topics proper topics

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States Quality Good

Be at a place

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in place in the proper place in your place out of place

Grammar

Name

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name proper noun

Grammar Name

Name of a thing

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name proper name designation label nomenclature tag title

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Simple sentences

It is not proper that you talk that way.

That is a custom proper to Japan.

That is not a proper subject to bring up in conversation at the dinner table.

That's not a proper thing to say.

He needs proper medical attention at a hospital.

Proper praise stinks.

In Japan, it is proper to bow when you meet someone.

He doesn't know even the proper way of greeting people.

Is tomorrow's breakfast bread or a proper one with rice?

Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.

The files are in proper order.

England proper is divided into 48 ceremonial counties.

Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.

He is the proper person for the job.

Parents must provide their children with proper food and clothing.

It is not proper to be late for a dinner party.

Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!

If everyone could pay close attention, please. I will now auscultate the patient. Make sure to note the proper procedure because you all will be practicing this tomorrow.

Last night I was too tired to cook a proper meal, so I just ate instant noodles.

Now that Tom is taking proper medication, he should be able to control himself better.

Before tidying up, all my things were lying scattered about in their proper places; afterwards, everything was neatly arranged the devil knows where.

It's a proper interesting book.

Movie subtitles

Without any proper sewage system, medieval London stank to high heaven, whereas human excrement was routinely collected in Chinese cities and spread on outlying fields.

We are having a proper funeral for her, so prepare accordingly.

Our Young Master isn't interested in the world at all to work hard as a proper magistrate.

For handling any kind of thing, there is always the proper timing.

Well, I'm. I'm gonna make sure you have a chance to say a proper goodbye, all right?

Um. Okay, I'm. I'm gonna be back in a bit to, uh. to, um, put a proper cast on that.

Yeah, through proper channels.

And if the Wadsworths knew that we had special guests and I didn't give proper service, well.

I was thinking, Sister, when she gets her arms, will she be able to put proper jumpers and cardigans over them?

It's so she can lead a proper life, like you!

It is not proper protocol for you to commandeer one of my Constables without checking with me first.

Now that she's back in proper hands, we can concentrate on more important things.

And these things are possible with proper critical care.

The proper care and attention.

I got some proper clothes.

We can uncouple the warhead, position the Dolphin III at the proper elevation, and send the missile off. Mathematically, at least, it should be possible to reach the station's orbit and in time.

Now that Catalina has been given a proper burial, maybe back home for a little farming.

That's all quite proper.

At the proper time. I'll sing a certain song.

I have proper insurance.

Men never get a proper sense of values until they've been about a bit.

I'll need a short statement I can forward to the proper authority.

Are you entirely ignorant of the proper procedure of the court?

Oh, but Peggotty, you haven't given Mr. Barkis his proper answer, You know. Oh, bless the boy.

Why don't you go to Madrid where they have the proper police to cope with these things?

The question was proper!

I think the questions are perfectly proper, Lady Dearden.

Okay, I'm. I'm gonna be back in a bit to, uh. to, um, put a proper cast on that.

Why don't you go and thank the gentleman proper?

Beyond here... lies Las Hurdes proper.

It don't look proper.

If my secret is divulged, I shall leave instantly. and return in my proper person.

It isn't proper.

I don't think it would be quite proper for you to receive her that way.

News and current affairs

This could have incited a complicated situation where Russians were faced with tough visa requirements when travelling between Kaliningrad and Russia proper.

The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious altar (so that they would fear pre-marital sex).

The proper responses are also increasingly understood.

Instead of looking at the wrong model - that of a single state - the EU and its member states should focus on the conditions required for the proper functioning of a currency union that has no common budget to compensate for asymmetric shocks.

The region continues to need that involvement - on time, on message, and on a proper democratic platform, one that is distinct from both traditional US intervention and Latin America's traditional indifference.

The companies that will be best placed to survive will be those that took the proper precautions to avoid being run off the road.

It would be an excellent thing if the global financial crisis restored a proper sense of what is important.

It verges on slavery when children are locked up without proper lighting, food, and healthcare.

The norms of a colonial and militarist regime have begun to infiltrate the governing organs of Israel's democracy, perverting their proper activities.

A proper, functioning elected legislature has been created, which is very important because democratic oversight is the most reliable anti-corruption watchdog.

Here the EU can also play a prominent role by recognizing Russia's special interest in proper pipeline maintenance and a proper accounting for the gas they carry.

The EBRD would safeguard the legitimate interests of all parties (including Russia), ensuring the proper operation and maintenance of the pipelines and overseeing the distribution of transit fees.

Indeed, the proper functioning of EU institutions requires that no important constituency (left or right, East or West, and so forth) feels left out.

Israeli Jews are bound to stay in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israeli Arabs are bound to stay in Israel proper.

Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.

Proper access to credit for productive segments is an integral part of a well-functioning economy.

That is why any comprehensive approach to restoring the advanced countries' economic and financial vibrancy must target the proper revival of private credit flows.

Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.

And it was the foreign press that detailed the parallel failure of the United Nations, whose agents were on the ground but whose inability to call genocide by its proper name led to a comatose response.

In this way, the proper division of labor could be established.

It is about protecting the most vulnerable segments of society, including by providing them access to proper health coverage.

Building a proper division of responsibility between state and market from this insight is today's main task.

But it was also meant to convey that Germany had grown up into a proper international power.

But proper diagnosis and treatment requires money, and funding is being cut.

The political and economic success of southern Europe's much-needed structural reforms requires the proper dose and timing of budgetary medicine and buoyant demand in the north.

From his words it appears that he was equally conscious of not getting the proper respect due to a distinguished Harvard professor and media celebrity.

Israel has invested great financial resources in the settlements, often ignoring important needs in Israel proper.

Indeed, the key challenge in the years ahead will be to find the proper balance between these two objectives.

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