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improper

adjective

1 improper

Not suitable or right or appropriate.

Roget 568: ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic, solecistical.   

Roget 647: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit ... show more

Roget 499: unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head etc. 498; not bright etc. ... show more

Roget 24: disagreeing etc. v.; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, ... show more

2 improper

Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention:
— Improper banking practices.

synonyms: unconventional, unlawful.

Roget 925: undue; unlawful etc. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit; unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified; ... show more

3 improper

Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.

synonym: wrong.

Roget 945: vicious; sinful; sinning etc. v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; ... show more

Roget 923: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious [Law].    objectionable; ... show more

Polish: niestosowny


Moby thesaurus: Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amiss, arrant, atrocious, bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, black, blamable, blameworthy, blooper, boner, boo-boo, break, cacophonous, careless ... show more.

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