proper noun

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

He could deliver a quick, effective speech, or hold a proper press conference.

And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.

But those incidents are due to mistakes and leaks, not proper fracking procedures.

A portrait of him was done once in which the collar point was made to sit in its proper place.

She herself had worn them in her youth, and they were the proper bonnets for "growing girls."

That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?

And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.

Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.

Not only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.