Definition of improper

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Improper (a.) Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress..

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Diphthong :: Diphthong (n.) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong..
Mucus :: Mucus (n.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used..
Mismanage :: Mismanage (v. t. & i.) To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs..
Inexpedient :: Inexpedient (a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another..
Allowable :: Allowable (a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends..
Devise :: Devise (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
Masterwort :: Masterwort (n.) Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum)..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports..
Free Will :: Free will () A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
Freedom :: Freedom (n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
Misarrange :: Misarrange (v. t.) To place in a wrong order, or improper manner..
Device :: Device (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing..
Misjoin :: Misjoin (v. t.) To join unfitly or improperly.
Misuse :: Misuse (n.) Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
Naughty :: Naughty (superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child..
Misbear :: Misbear (v. t.) To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.
Nestorian :: Nestorian (n.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian..
Unproper :: Unproper (a.) Not proper or peculiar; improper.
Misbehave :: Misbehave (v. t. & i.) To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Unthriftily :: Unthriftily (adv.) Improperly; unbecomingly.
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