Synonyms for inappropriately


Grammar : Adv
Spell : in-uh-proh-pree-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn əˈproʊ pri ɪt

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Définition of inappropriately

Origin :
  • 1804, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + appropriate (adj.). Related: Inappropriately; inappropriateness.
  • As in improperly : adv poorly
  • As in inconveniently : adv inaccessibly
  • As in wrongly : adv incorrectly
  • As in amiss : adv wrongly; defectively
Example sentences :
  • The following letter may not inappropriately open this section.
  • Extract from : « The Better Germany in War Time » by Harold Picton
  • They struggled forward and fell on their knees—not inappropriately—to drink.
  • Extract from : « The Settler and the Savage » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • A musical simile may not inappropriately be applied to his work.
  • Extract from : « Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists » by Various
  • He has been designated, not inappropriately, the philosopher in sabots.
  • Extract from : « Millet  » by Percy Moore Turner
  • To this bird has been given not inappropriately the name of Summer Snipe.
  • Extract from : « British Birds in their Haunts » by Rev. C. A. Johns
  • This the colonists, not inappropriately, call the tablecloth.
  • Extract from : « The World and Its People: Book VII » by Anna B. Badlam
  • They have been nicknamed, not inappropriately, the bull's eye stamps of Brazil.
  • Extract from : « Peeps at Postage Stamps » by Stanley Currie Johnson
  • By this man acquires the likeness of a brute animal, with which indeed such persons not inappropriately compare themselves.
  • Extract from : « Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There » by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • When each member of the congregated world "tries its own expressive power," madness not inappropriately rules the hour.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. » by Various
  • She was educated at Chelles, and was there cruelly ill-treated by the abbess, who was inappropriately named Wilcona, or Welcome.
  • Extract from : « Early Double Monasteries » by Constance Stoney

Antonyms for inappropriately

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