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Appropriately

Appropriately \Ap*pro"pri*ate*ly\, adv. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

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appropriately

adv. In an appropriate manner; properly; suitably.

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appropriately

adv. in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed" [syn: suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly] [ant: inappropriately, inappropriately]

Usage examples of "appropriately".

Today there is no subject on which the President may not appropriately communicate to Congress, in as precise terms as he chooses, his conception of its duty.

Constitution on that subject, looked at from a generic point of view, both are federal powers and, comprehensively considered, are sustained by every authority of the federal government, judicial, legislative, or executive, which may be appropriately exercised.

These and other transgressions of those limits the States appropriately may punish.

For a brief interval following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court appears to have underestimated the significance of this clause as a substantive restraint on the power of States to fix rates chargeable by an industry deemed appropriately subject to such controls.

Finally, the contention has been made that in stressing the separate identities of a corporation and its stockholders, the Court overlooked the fact that when a surplus has been accumulated, the stockholders are thereby enriched, and that a stock dividend may therefore be appropriately viewed simply as a device whereby the corporation reinvests money earned in their behalf.

I thank him, because it came appropriately from one not identified by his position with South Carolina.

We, however, must be careful to bring the appropriately convincing principles to the discussion of the Unity, of perfect Being: we must hold to the Intellectual principles which alone apply to the Intellectual Order and to Real Being.

TSA also needs to intensify its efforts to identify, track, and appropriately screen potentially dangerous cargo in both the aviation and maritime sectors.

Since that war, the department has appropriately drawn these agencies into its transformation of the military.

The FBI should report regularly to Congress in its semiannual program reviews designed to identify whether each field office is appropriately addressing FBI and national program priorities.

The above three classes of food-stuffs are only obtained through the activity of living organisms, vegetable or animal, and have been, therefore, appropriately termed by Prof.

It is appropriately named nettle-rash, from its resemblance to the irritation caused by the sting of a nettle.

Though these modes can be appropriately used only occasionally, nevertheless they are of great value to the reader, and the voice should be trained to assume them whenever necessary.

The emphatic words here used may be appropriately uttered with intervals of a tone, a third, a fifth, or an octave, according to the emphasis supposed necessary.

So while she claims never to have consciously considered being a decorative note in her own garden, her trained instinct for costuming herself appropriately and becomingly brings about the desirable decorative effect.