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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

appropriately

/əˈpɹoʊpɹiɪtli/

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What does appropriately mean?

adverb

  1. In an appropriate manner; properly; suitably.

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IPA pronunciation

/əˈpɹoʊpɹiɪtli/

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And here, appropriately enough, there stood in old days a crow-haunted gibbet, with two bodies hanged in chains.
Robert Louis StevensonEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #382
To those who know the workings of your mind, Your face and figure, sir, suggest a book Appropriately bound.
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
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We can easily see, from the foregoing, how appropriately this period has been named that of old life forms.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873
Wherever it grows, it is a conspicuous object on the landscape and has been appropriately named "The Sentinel of the Desert."
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756