Synonym: accurate, correct, decent, faultless, fitting, perfect, respectful, right, tasteful. Antonym: improper. Similar words: propel, property, improper, properly, propensity, private property, rope, grope. Meaning: ['prɑpə(r) /'prɒ-] adj. 1. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness 2. limited to the thing specified 3. appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs 4. having all the qualities typical of the thing specified.
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61. That guy is a proper terror.
62. Many young men were sent into battle without proper training.
63. We don't have a proper agreement, but we have an informal understanding, if you like.
64. They should be treated with the dignity proper to all individuals created by God.
65. You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper .
66. Ground controllers will then fire the booster, sending the satellite into its proper orbit.
67. As young ladies we were expected to act/behave with proper decorum.
68. As we've not got the proper materials,[http://sentencedict.com/proper.html] we'll just have to improvise.
69. He denied that he'd failed to keep a proper lookout that night.
70. It has recently come to my attention that some of the younger boys are not using the toilets for the proper purpose.
71. He has urged them to come to an equitable compromise that gives Hughes his proper due.
72. The Queen was crowned with all solemnity / with all the proper solemnities.
73. It was not considered proper for young ladies to go out alone.
74. This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young.
75. The army must be kitted out with proper medical supplies.
76. It seemed that everyone had written off their marriage even before it had been given a proper chance.
77. Children no longer have proper regard for their parents and teachers.
78. The elders were responsible for the proper conduct of community life.
79. The instructor demonstrated the proper way to sew in a zipper.
80. Social services should pay proper regard to the needs of inner-city areas.
81. Don't fling your arms and legs around like that. Make the proper swimming strokes.
82. Even after thirty years living in the country, I fear I am not a proper countryman. I don't farm for a living or go tramping across drenched fields, gun in hand.
83. Some cities in the world do not have proper facilities for the disposal of sewage.
84. She can be a proper little minx when she wants to get her own way!
85. A distinction must be made between archaeology proper and science-based archaeology.
86. With proper care, the washing machine should last for years.
87. We need to knock around the district to find a proper man for the transplantation.
88. He was hanged without even the pretence of a proper trial.
89. It's a proper Christmas dinner, with turkey and bread sauce.
90. Use a proper fish knife and fork if possible as they are designed to cut through the flesh but not the bones.
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