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Answer for the clue "Unsuitably ", 10 letters:
improperly

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Word definitions for improperly in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an improper way; "he checked whether the wound had healed improperly" [ant: properly ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Improperly \Im*prop"er*ly\, adv. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. in an improper manner; not properly

Usage examples of improperly.

In describing the country, extraction, and manners of Herculius, we have already delineated those of Galerius, who was often, and not improperly, styled the younger Maximian, though, in many instances both of virtue and ability, he appears to have possessed a manifest superiority over the elder.

For remedies powerful enough to effect cures of spermatorrhea and impotency are capable, when improperly employed, of doing great harm.

These things extruded themselves into the water like the roots that grew out of improperly stored potatoes, forking from time to time, carrying their own Feeds forward so that they could be extended on command.

He will be particularly careful to prevent the men from loading the guns improperly, or otherwise than may be specially ordered, and will prevent any unnecessary noise.

More than ordinary care should, however, be exercised in the purchase of carbon inks, for the lack of chemical union would cause a tendency to precipitate the carbon if the ink were improperly made.

Agatha Treadway died of botulism, having eaten improperly preserved string beans.

The term star-cluster is sometimes applied, though improperly, to assemblages which are rather groups, such, for instance, as the Pleiades.

Or the third, most likely possibility: Failee will have mishandled the incantations, improperly joined the two sides of the craft, and the world will have ceased to exist.

Air moving in from the opposite direction, from antispinward, will become fractionally heavier - -" Louis was groping with an improperly visualized picture.

The President improperly tampered with a potential witness by attempting to corruptly influence the testimony of his personal secretary, Betty Currie, in the days after his civil deposition.

In describing the country, extraction, and manners of Herculius, we have already delineated those of Galerius, who was often, and not improperly, styled the younger Maximian, though, in many instances both of virtue and ability, he appears to have possessed a manifest superiority over the elder.

It seems, indeed, not very improbable that the application of the name of Maabar to that part of the coast of Coromandel, may have given rise to the practice amongst Europeans (who confounded the two words) of denominating the natives on the eastern side of the peninsula so improperly, Malabars.

Advice improperly administered generally acts in diametrical opposition to the purpose for which it is supposed to be given.

And it is clearly shown without any doubt in what has just been written, that much negligence is committed by improperly instructed priests (in which case it pertains to the fourth of the above-noted impediments, namely, a flaw in the exorcist), or else by old women who do not observe the proper method of baptism at the necessary time.

And Katerina, who had a sense of these things, did not for a moment act as if the bread and salt might have been improperly magicked up—.