What is "improper"

Usage examples of "improper".

Sabine system imposes a fine of five thousand credits for improper undock, and you have an outstanding ship balance due of 2345 credits for docking services.

And it is suggested as not improper that in constructing a loyal State government in any State the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general code of laws as before the rebellion be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions hereinbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said co and which may be deemed expedient by those framing the new State government.

Speculations, for example, over whether Meursault will win his appeal, an outcome not treated in the novel, would simply be dismissed as improper by most critics, although at least one has argued that the appeal has already been denied when Meursault writes.

He was too damn smug for his own good, Midas decided, wanting to know what was bringing out such an improper emotion in the face of the chaos that had apparently just befallen this company.

Not even the icy voice of that woman, complaining about the crumpled dress and improper sleepwear, could rouse her much.

Captain Thoma and others lost those tanks to improper use and unnecessary risk, and was lucky not to have lost this one, as well.

Due to an infection, the result of improper drainageand aggravated by a common urological problemhe had to have the remaining quarter of his penis removed in an operation.

As I had no improper design with regard to her, I enjoyed her gratitude, and felt pleased at the idea she evidently entertained of my kind attentions.

Almost the first person Polly saw on entering the crowded reception room was Lord Henry March night, lavishing his attentions in a thoroughly improper way on a lady in bright scarlet satin.

But his attentions could never be anything other than dishonourable, and as a result of her own actions he was now pursuing her in a wholly improper way.

Lord Stewart Cavanagh and Commander Adam Quinn had raised the issue of improper Copperhead cadet screening, there had been long and heated debates throughout the Commonwealth as to whether the Copperheads were even worth all this effort and money.

The gentleman protested that he had intended no improper freedom, but had the greatest respect for Dr. Johnson.

She takes the coffee down to the old orchard, say, and Garlick makes improper advances towards her.

As the forces of the prisoners were reduced by confinement, want of exercise, improper diet, and by scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery, they were unable to evacuate their bowels within the stream or along its banks, and the excrements were deposited at the very doors of their tents.

It needed only a word of admonition to Paula, and she at once recognised how improper it would be to hold further relations with so unprincipled a man.