Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
improper conduct
Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
To appropriate; to assign (something, to someone) as a possession or prerogative.
He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor.
From Middle French impropre, from Latin improprius (“not proper”), from in- + proprius (“proper”). By surface analysis, im- + proper.
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