Definition of Improperly

1. Adverb. In an improper way. "He checked whether the wound had healed improperly"

Partainyms: Improper
Antonyms: Properly

Definition of Improperly

1. adv. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Definition of Improperly

1. Adverb. in an improper manner; not properly ¹

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Definition of Improperly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Improperly

improlific
impromanga
impromangas
impromidine
imprompt
impromptu
impromptus
improper
improper fraction
improper fractions
improper integral
improper integrals
improperation
improperations
improperia
improperly (current term)
improperness
impropernesses
improperty
impropitious
improportionable
improportionate
impropre
impropriate
impropriated
impropriates
impropriating
impropriation
impropriations
impropriator

Literary usage of Improperly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"evidence offered was not the evidence of said witnesses respectively, or that the same had been improperly taken or reported," the depositions were admitted ..."

2. Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1893)
"Ex. Prove that, if any group of substitutions with complex coefficients be improperly discontinuous, it is improperly discontinuous only for points in the ..."

3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"6 rr > > O improperly First, "political courage," which most resembles true courage. Citizens seem often to face dangers because of legal pains and ..."

4. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"Laws (pro- I believe that I have now reviewed all the classes of objects, Called)0 t° which the term laws is improperly applied. The laws impera^ (I think) ..."

5. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Votes improperly Obtained from Innocent Creditors or Oast for Disqualified Candidates Not Nullities.—Votes on proxies improperly obtained from innocent ..."

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