1. proper
proper person
When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.
Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.
Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.
A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.
Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?
There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.
You have just won a prize of $5000 in a California state safety competition for proper use of your seatbelt.
1. It is absolutely the proper thing for my kind of appearance. / 2. Look, I don't think this is the proper occasion... / 3. There's a proper young man for my daughter. / 4. Mama finds it very proper and practical.
If everyone could pay close attention, please. I will now auscultate the patient. Make sure to note the proper procedure because you all will be practicing this tomorrow.
Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!
2. appropriate
High heels are not appropriate for a job in a factory. Vodka is not an appropriate drink for meeting with your boss. When cooking pancakes you need to add the appropriate amount of milk or they will be too dry.
Please forward this message along with the seminar information to the appropriate managers in your firm.
appropriate penalties
1. Neither of these are appropriate for a five-year-old girl. / 2. I'm not sure this is appropriate behaviour, Mr Acting President. / 3. I guess it's appropriate.
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Remove the cap from the ink refill bottle, fill the dropper with ink, and drip an appropriate amount onto the marker's core.
For this design house it was an appropriate strategy to introduce even more radical colors into computer production.
We are concerned about the further actualization of current problems among youth, such as truancy, dislike of school and lack of appropriate character development.
And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.
Among the critics are those who think that the objective set for the European Central Bank is not appropriate.
We therefore agree with the proposal in this question, which seems to us highly appropriate.
In the second case, it appears that the most appropriate procedure for selecting the private partner would be through competitive dialogue, which is set out in the Public Procurement Act
The system will sort workflows according to the level of compatibility and ensure that the most appropriate workflow is displayed when users create a requisition
correct or suitable for a particular time, situation, or purpose (an education system which is more appropriate to the needs of the students)
I'm patching things up for your mistake so it's only natural that I get a reward appropriate to my labours.