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proper
Part of speech: AdverbProperly.
Part of speech: AdjectiveFit or suitable; correct; as, proper language; appropriate; as, proper dress; relating to the nature of a certain person or thing; as, a proper noun: opposite to common; peculiar.
Usage examples "proper":- " Quite the proper thing," said Lord Silverbridge, and that was all. - "The Duke's Children", Anthony Trollope.
- The boys may do a thousand things which are 'not proper for little girls. - "Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children", Pye Henry Chavasse.
- Dear me, were your people so very proper that you don't even know the meaning of that word? - "Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World", James Cowan.