not done

1. Socially unacceptable, improper, as in Bringing along two friends without asking, that's not done. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

While many firefighters and fire officials support the creation of fuel breaks, which offer better access to remote areas during a fire fight, fire ecologists warn that if not done carefully, fuel breaks can make the landscape even more fire-prone by inadvertently replacing chaparral with flammable invasive grasses.

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Mr Knox asked Mr Holmes if anyone else would have gone to get the machine if he had not done so, to which he responded "it wouldn't seem so, no".

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Alex Schoenen, who runs an agency that supports up-and-coming TikTok creators, said that authorities had not done enough to explain rules that were "far too complex".

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Since Osbourne’s passing two weeks after the triumphant “Back to the Beginning” farewell show in Black Sabbath’s birthplace of Birmingham, England, Wylde has not done any in-depth media interviews about his friend.

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While Russia and Qatar implemented visa fast-track processes at the previous two editions of the World Cup, the USA has not done so.

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Related Words

• amiss 
• bad 
• funny 
• ill-advised 
• improper 
• incorrect 
• unacceptable 
• unhappy