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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inappropriate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appropriate/inappropriateformal (= suitable/not suitable for that situation)
▪ Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate, unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers.
▪ After a brief debate in the parliament, his scheme was dismissed as inappropriate.
▪ The name Mad Axe is about as inappropriate as anyone could imagine.
clearly
▪ Topocide is an emotional issue; quantitative research procedures were clearly inappropriate.
▪ The entrepreneurial definition is clearly inappropriate here.
▪ It is clearly inappropriate to involve Julie in a prolonged conversation as soon as she arrives on the ward.
▪ If the agreement is clearly inappropriate or fails to reflect what has already been agreed, this can be counter-productive.
▪ The patient's engagement in such exploration may sometimes be facilitated by including a clearly inappropriate possibility that he can easily reject.
entirely
▪ Parallels with Simon de Montfort, the Valence and Joinville families are not entirely inappropriate.
▪ But I also know that a word which is acceptable in the locker room can be entirely inappropriate for the classroom.
▪ It was entirely inappropriate, but she couldn't help herself.
▪ Such immunity would be entirely inappropriate in the case of an operating lease.
▪ Nor is the dragon entirely inappropriate in a story relating to a king supposedly descended from a sea-monster.
quite
▪ Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system.
▪ It has cloaked it in pedantic, complicated, incomprehensible language which is also quite inappropriate.
▪ Indeed, it seems that in some cases an interpretation in terms of emphasis is quite inappropriate.
▪ Here one is dealing with social situations which are relatively unexplored and where sample surveys may be quite inappropriate.
totally
▪ Ireland, with inflation above 6 %, has negative real interest rates, which is totally inappropriate.
▪ Nothing would destroy her - least of all these totally inappropriate emotions for a man who had brought her nothing but misery.
▪ Fine for a static Dalek, but totally inappropriate for a mobile machine.
wholly
▪ The acts, implying possession in one case, may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another.
▪ Quite apart from questions of sample size and representativeness, this particular aggregation is wholly inappropriate.
▪ Chief Inspector Davina Logan described the sentence as wholly inappropriate.
▪ The same terms are used to describe very different products and some terms are wholly inappropriate.
▪ Many of the burdensome covenants inserted in the former kind of lease will be wholly inappropriate to the latter.
▪ One of these is the notion of detachment between professionals and clients which is wholly inappropriate in teaching.
▪ For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate.
▪ One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ These feelings of being out of control can lead to inappropriate behaviour - maybe submissive behaviour.
▪ Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour and the pupils acknowledge, at least, its theoretical structure.
▪ The negative consequences of inappropriate behaviour should be predictable to the child: he/she should know what to expect.
▪ Get the child to practise positive behaviours which are physically incompatible with the inappropriate behaviour.
▪ Not allowing any form of inappropriate behaviour.
language
▪ Our door is painted a bright green colour with numerous messages using inappropriate language and phrases covering its exterior.
response
▪ Teenagers often make inappropriate responses to conflicts such as aggression, withdrawing, sulking, tantrums or destructive behaviour.
▪ All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful.
use
▪ An inappropriate use of the Legal Adviser's skills.
▪ Any of the following options would effectively reduce inappropriate use than would any technical change in legislation.
▪ The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics.
▪ This then raises the question as to what is the inappropriate use of an acute hospital bed?
▪ The environmental groups cite a number of examples of inappropriate use of the funds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A poster showing a nude woman is wholly inappropriate for the office.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any strike you as particularly inappropriate?
▪ Clark said it would be inappropriate to comment on his relationship with Beier.
▪ For Mr Johns an incorrect diagnosis led to inappropriate treatment.
▪ If such discriminations are appropriate to birds, why should they be inappropriate in the case of men?
▪ May contain some material parents consider inappropriate for young children.
▪ Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system.
▪ The acts, implying possession in one case, may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another.
▪ The organizer of the mailing list monitors the discussion, ejects troublesome members and blocks inappropriate messages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inappropriate

Inappropriate \In`ap*pro"pri*ate\, a. Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inappropriate

1804, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + appropriate (adj.). Related: Inappropriately; inappropriateness.

Wiktionary
inappropriate

a. Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, and/or place.

WordNet
inappropriate
  1. adj. not suitable for a particular occasion etc; "noise seems inappropriate at a time of sadness"; "inappropriate shoes for a walk on the beach"; "put inappropriate pressure on them" [ant: appropriate]

  2. not conforming with accepted standards of propriety or taste; undesirable; "incorrect behavior"; "she was seen in all the wrong places"; "He thought it was wrong for her to go out to work" [syn: incorrect, wrong]

  3. not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]

Usage examples of "inappropriate".

When Franklin informed him that the Comte de Chaumont was charging nothing, that they were living there at no cost, Adams worried that that, too, was inappropriate, since, as everyone knew, Chaumont was one of the largest contractors furnishing supplies for the American army.

Wingate people, she was constantly doing so with inappropriate comments about their supposed stem-cell therapy and even inappropriate questioning of the young, pregnant Bahamian women who worked at the clinic, which was an extremely sensitive issue with Paul Saunders.

The one habit that both Dixon and Cerro seemed to share was a sense of humor that at times seemed inappropriate and irreverent.

And always there are the returns, augmented now by the huge volume of items that have been tossed on the floor or carried fecklessly to inappropriate sites.

As Clyde surveyed the diverse cuts of meat sizzling on the massive grills, taken from several animal species, he found that he could not keep inappropriate memories of Byproducts out of his mind.

The three Baudelaires huddled together for the rest of the night, getting what sleep they could on a filthy floor with a cold wind blowing through their inappropriate home, and in the morning, after a breakfast of leftover fruit salad, they walked to the completed half of Heimlich Hospital and carefully walked down all those stairs, past the intercom speakers and the confusing maps.

Neimoidians had a taste for elaborate and wholly inappropriate grandeur, and Ghez Hokan despised them for it.

It was the artless gesture of the ingenue, inappropriate for this Rubenesque wife and mother, and yet she had more than enough charm to carry it off.

Accused of conduct inappropriate to a branch ind? His loyalty to the brood mind was unshakable.

But as soon as the notion arose, he felt it fizzling: she was friendly, she was good-looking, but she radiated an offputting vibe, a noli-me-tangere sort of thing, that was unmistakable and made any approach from him inappropriate.

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This was apparently in the nature of a canaille toast, for the six vulgarians guzzled their pots in unison, Shelyid joining in, with a passionate ardor so utterly inappropriate to the situation that even the lambs of the field, should they have been witness, would have bleated for his blood.

But if Baden thought the question inappropriate, he showed no sign of it.

Her behavior had been inappropriate, but now she knew that something about those IV bags scared Nola to death.

Ordinarily she would have cursed her clumsiness, and apologized but cursing was undignified and inappropriate to her mood.