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inappropriate
/ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/
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What does inappropriate mean?
adjective
- Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
- (informal) Improper; adult; sexual.
- (informal) (of an action or thing) vile or unpleasant; repulsive.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- (informal) Too vile.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/
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He had got somebody to scrawl it up for him, however, who had squeezed Death in with most inappropriate difficulty.
Here they were stowed into boxes which, from their size and shape, received the contemptuous, and not inappropriate designation of pigeon-holes.
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The long dark corridors and gloomy cloisters struck me as very inappropriate in the midst of this young and radiant nature.
What I mean is, that the clothes inappropriate to the man make the incongruity of him and his part more apparent.
If his answer is inappropriate, or if it is not begun before the counting stops, he must change places with the conductor.