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View definitions for inappropriately

inappropriately

adverb as in improperly

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adverb as in inconveniently

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adverb as in wrongly

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The more antibiotics are used inappropriately, the greater the risk of bacteria growing resistant to them.

“François Hollande never said a word out of line to me or behaved inappropriately with me—unlike many a politician,” she writes.

There are safeguards for ensuring that such a decision is not made lightly or inappropriately.

Jurors must decide if the McDonnells inappropriately aided in that effort in exchange for loans and gifts.

As a result, many of the women “were groped or inappropriately touched during the performance.”

But they are lost among long and high-flown speeches, which Lear keeps incessantly uttering quite inappropriately.

The glory of the place was indeed gone—​desecrated, as the Chinese could not inappropriately say, by Western barbarians.

The name Langstrothdale has a Celtic ring, and has not inappropriately been translated to mean the long valley.

By this man acquires the likeness of a brute animal, with which indeed such persons not inappropriately compare themselves.

A very curious but fully authentic anecdote may not be inappropriately inserted here, in which this individual was concerned.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inappropriately, such as: afield, afoul, badly, erringly, erroneously, and faultily.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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