proper
adjective
unproper
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a word derived from
proper.
Example Sentences
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Yes, sir, alone, sir, at night; a most unproper thing for a nice girl to do, sir, if I must say it, Mr. Canby.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
Oh, dear me, miss! it's dreadful to hear you talk so unproper.
From A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade
“It ’lows a man to say the unproper words in the hearin’ of the angel, afore he’s shot; so it won’t prevent 41 her ears from being ’fended.
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
"Misther Maguire," says the Pope, "it's very unproper ov you to spake that way ov my housekeeper: I won't allow it, sir."
From Stories of Comedy by Rossiter Johnson
“When we’re disposed to say one of them unproper words, the picture of that miserable scamp going a full week without a touch of Mountain Dew, will freeze up our lips closer than a clam.”
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
