Unproper

/ʌnˈpɹɒpə/ · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Improper, not according with fact or reason; wrong, irregular..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Improper, not according with fact or reason; wrong, irregular.
2. (now rare) Improper, not suited for its use or application; inappropriate.
3. (obsolete) Not belonging to a given person; someone else's.
4. (rare) Improper, not according with good standards of behaviour; indecent, indecorous.

Example Sentences

Sir, as I said last time, labour to keep your alacrity and dignity, in an even temper: for in a dark sadness, indifferent things seem abominable, or necessary, being neither; as trees, and sheep, to melancholy night-walkers, have unproper shapes.

Transparency is paramount. If football’s guardians cannot deliver it they will, rightly, be deemed to be every bit as unfit and unproper to play a role in administering the sport as any secretive investor they may feel motivated to investigate.

The pleasure in the act of Venus is the greatest of the pleasures of the senses: the matching of it with itch is unproper; though that also be pleasing to the touch.

There's Millions now aliue, That nightly lye in those vnproper beds, Which they dare sweare peculiar.

His equally unproper brother, City Planner Charles W. II, shocked purists in the 19303 by building a flat-topped house in Ipswich.

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