unproper
- a word derived from proper.
Example Sentences
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Thus do I know her: but for what men call Beauty—the loveliness corporeal, Its most just praise a thing unproper were To singer or to listener, me or her.
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
“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 Ellis, Edward Sylvester
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 Gibbs, George
And the manner of their traditions was utterly unfit and unproper for amplification of knowledge.
From Valerius Terminus; of the interpretation of nature by Bacon, Francis
Oh, dear me, miss! it's dreadful to hear you talk so unproper.
From A Little Mother to the Others by Meade, L. T.
