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Answer for the clue "In a suitable way ", 8 letters:
properly

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Word definitions for properly in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be properly enforced ▪ Rules are only effective if they are properly enforced. eat properly British English , eat right American English (= eat food that will keep you healthy ) ▪ He hadn’t been eating properly and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" [syn: decently , decent , in good order , right , the right way ] [ant: improperly ] with reason or justice [syn: by rights ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. in a proper manner

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Properly \Prop"er*ly\, adv. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. --Milton. Individually; after one's own manner. [Obs.] Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. --Chaucer.

Usage examples of properly.

Normally he would have taken it up with Franklin, the properly accredited minister to the Court, with whom he had never known the least discord.

It will require a strong standing army, and probably more than two hundred millions per annum, to maintain the supremacy of negro governments after they are established,--a sum thus thrown away which would, if properly used, form a sinking-fund large enough to pay the whole National debt in less than fifteen years.

Thus the alien elements, those which do not properly enter into the composition of any living tissue, are the most to be suspected,-- mercury, lead, antimony, silver, and the rest, for the reasons I have before mentioned.

Moreover, since we know that riches first and chiefly appertain to the support of the body only, while the virtue of books is the perfection of reason, which is properly speaking the happiness of man, it appears that books to the man who uses his reason are dearer than riches.

President Johnson, however, behaved as an ordinary political speaker in a heated canvass, receiving interruptions from the crowd, answering insolent remarks with undignified repartee, and lowering at every step of his progress the dignity which properly appertains to the great office.

With reference to the lands attached to bishoprics the chancellor of the exchequer laid down this principle, namely, that if by the act of parliament to be introduced any new value was given to benefices, that new value not belonging properly to the church might be appropriated to the exigencies of the state.

And so, as if he were a worthy Architect properly gowned and cleansed, he opened the door to the meditation hall and stepped inside.

Then, before the leech could properly attach itself to the fellow, the Archimandrite pulled it back and let it hang from his half-outstretched arm, where it swung and twisted muscularly with what felt for all the world like genuine frustration.

Eternal God, whom men wrong, when they deprive Him of what properly can be attributed to Him only, and transfer it to other names and persons.

To him that is born it is attributed as to its subject: and this, properly speaking, is the hypostasis, not the nature.

Now because the Son is Wisdom begotten, and Truth proceeding from the Father, and His perfect Image, consequently, judiciary power is properly attributed to the Son of God.

It seems, therefore, that the character should properly be attributed to Christ.

Hell, if we could control our automation properly we could house three thousand in this balloon.

The curve was banked, angled properly, and the bank rolled around it with no trouble at all around and out of sight.

Properly speaking, we ought to have been in the west wind belt as soon as we came out, and the drift of the clouds and movement of the barograph were examined at least twenty-four times a day, but it still remained calm.