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▪ I. malappropriate, a.|mæləˈprəʊprɪət|
[f. mal- + appropriate a.]
Ill-suited, inappropriate.
1851De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. 1859 XIII. 13 If a prize had been offered for a bad and malappropriate subject, none worse could have been suggested. 1883St. James's Gaz. 28 Apr. 4 Much eloquent (if rather malappropriate) language about religious liberty.
▪ II. malappropriate, v.|mæləˈprəʊprɪeɪt|
[f. mal- + appropriate v.]
trans. To misapply.
1847E. Brontë Wuthering Heights xxxii. (1850) 268 She thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and mal-appropriated several other articles of her craft. |