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inappropriately

/in-uh-proh-pree-it/US // ˌɪn əˈproʊ pri ɪt //UK // (ˌɪnəˈprəʊprɪɪt) //

不适当地,不恰当地,不恰当的,不当

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.

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Examples

  • In January, he told The Post in an interview that he had done nothing inappropriate in connection to the casino deal.

  • When Hill faced an ethics investigations into allegations that she’d had inappropriate extramarital affairs with a campaign and congressional staffer, she quickly stepped down.

  • In one instance, a man who helped on her campaign sent her inappropriate text messages and became obsessive, so she had to change her phone number, she said.

  • The state attorney general resigned in August, two hours after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica published an investigation revealing he’d sent inappropriate text messages to a female state employee.

  • These days it’s far easier for an advertiser to be overly restrictive in their attempts to avoid inappropriate content, media owners be damned.

  • 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.