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Definition of Improperly

Improperly

  1. In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

Improperly Quotations

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.
Hillary Clinton

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson

While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.
Bobby Scott

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
Vincent Bugliosi

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
Elias Hicks
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Improperly Translations

improperly in German is ungeeignet, ungeeignet, unpassende
improperly in Swedish is oriktigt

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