Crossword-Solution: IMPROPER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Improper | a. | Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. |
| Improper | a. | Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common. |
| Improper | a. | Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous. |
| Improper | v. t. | To appropriate; to limit. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IMPROPER (5)
Dimmesdale longed at least to shake hands with the tarry blackguard, and recreate himself with a few improper jests, such as dissolute sailors so abound with, and a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths! It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.
Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman—it is how she would look.
Would it be improper for me to ask, also, what the ‘T.E.’ at the end of your name stands for?” “Those letters express my degree,” answered the Woggle-Bug, with a condescending smile.
With a transmitter sending out waves in all directions, it is possible for unscrupulous persons to receive the messages and make an improper use of them.
There was a certain lieutenant of _spahis_ whom the government had reason to suspect of improper relations with a great European power.
Quotes with IMPROPER (3)
The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left t…
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in fa…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1961–2014).