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Definition of properly in English: properlyadverb ˈprɒp(ə)liˈprɑpərli 1Correctly or satisfactorily. ensuring the work is carried out properly a properly drafted agreement Example sentencesExamples - I got better because someone before me taught me how to eat properly.
- He said more than half the new application forms filled in at the start of the year were not completed properly and had to be returned.
- His parachute training had helped him develop the skills he needed to position himself properly.
- The railway bridge was highlighted as one of the jobs not completed properly.
- Worse, there is a growing belief that they might be too complex to work properly.
- Many also fall behind at school because they are too tired or too distracted to complete homework properly.
- Most permanent teeth grow just underneath the milk teeth, and this helps them to be positioned properly.
- A First Aid course will teach you how to carry out resuscitation properly.
- I haven't eaten properly for a few days and my sleeping has been erratic.
- If out mushroom picking, make sure you identify your finds properly before cooking and eating.
- Minutes are disappearing simply because I'm entirely unable to function properly.
- What is the point of speaking if you are not going to be heard properly, literally or otherwise?
- My position is properly described as left-wing because I favour revolutionary change.
- Firstly, we do need to have a thorough and properly organised constitutional review.
- I need a keeper, someone who can make me nice meals and make sure I eat properly.
- However, some errors are difficult to correct, even when properly identified.
- She pleaded with other women not to get into a car unless they are absolutely positive it is properly registered.
- But the number of cases that properly fall in either category is exceptionally small.
- If this is going to be done properly the correct omens should be in place.
- Tank corps and air force units had not been fully deployed or concentrated properly.
Synonyms correctly, rightly, right, all right - 1.1 Appropriately for the circumstances; suitably or respectably.
I'm trying to get my mother to behave properly Example sentencesExamples - A senior officer insisted the force had adequate procedures to ensure officers behaved properly.
- If you felt you had some good points to make, you could have dressed them properly and not resorted to cheap journalism.
- There is nothing wrong in being presentable and behaving properly where we are required to.
- Not knowing what to expect, I decided to dress properly and make a very good first impression.
- Dead man or no dead man, she must be at her interview tomorrow and she must be properly dressed.
- I couldn't eat properly since holding a knife and fork was so alien and almost painful to me.
- No one does this properly anymore, at least not without some overbearing sense of irony.
- I don't think there's anybody who feels we've behaved properly in this at all.
- They were behaving more properly, more respectably, than middle-class people at a funeral.
- It empowered societies to demand from their governments that they behave properly.
- If you must do this stuff, put the effort in and do it properly and respectfully.
- Others argue that belief in an afterlife is necessary to make us behave properly in this one.
- I figured if something were going to happen to me, I wanted to at least be dressed properly.
- In my judgment she acted entirely properly in taking every step to protect her source.
- You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes.
- The ads poke fun at the problem parents, not at the ones who behave properly at their kids' games.
- Also, place them in suitable holders and make sure they are properly put out.
- On such trips, my partner launched a campaign to make me dress properly.
- Every minute seemed to last an hour and she couldn't have eaten her dinner properly if she'd tried.
- Keep your wits about you, behave properly and do as you would in your own country.
Synonyms appropriately, correspondingly, suitably, fitly, duly, consistently, properly, correctly
2sentence adverb In the strict sense; exactly. algebra is, properly speaking, the analysis of equations Example sentencesExamples - The drive properly speaking, in the only sense faithful to Freud's discovery, is sexuality.
3British informal usually as submodifier Thoroughly; completely. on the first day she felt properly well, Millie sat out on the front steps Example sentencesExamples - The learned District Judge failed to take that fully and properly into account when she considered her order.
- Nor, I suggest, are we in this court in a position to explore it properly.
Synonyms in every respect, to the core Definition of properly in US English: properlyadverbˈprɑpərliˈpräpərlē 1Correctly or satisfactorily. ensuring the work is carried out properly a properly drafted agreement Example sentencesExamples - I haven't eaten properly for a few days and my sleeping has been erratic.
- My position is properly described as left-wing because I favour revolutionary change.
- But the number of cases that properly fall in either category is exceptionally small.
- I need a keeper, someone who can make me nice meals and make sure I eat properly.
- A First Aid course will teach you how to carry out resuscitation properly.
- She pleaded with other women not to get into a car unless they are absolutely positive it is properly registered.
- What is the point of speaking if you are not going to be heard properly, literally or otherwise?
- If this is going to be done properly the correct omens should be in place.
- Worse, there is a growing belief that they might be too complex to work properly.
- Tank corps and air force units had not been fully deployed or concentrated properly.
- Most permanent teeth grow just underneath the milk teeth, and this helps them to be positioned properly.
- Many also fall behind at school because they are too tired or too distracted to complete homework properly.
- His parachute training had helped him develop the skills he needed to position himself properly.
- I got better because someone before me taught me how to eat properly.
- However, some errors are difficult to correct, even when properly identified.
- If out mushroom picking, make sure you identify your finds properly before cooking and eating.
- Minutes are disappearing simply because I'm entirely unable to function properly.
- He said more than half the new application forms filled in at the start of the year were not completed properly and had to be returned.
- The railway bridge was highlighted as one of the jobs not completed properly.
- Firstly, we do need to have a thorough and properly organised constitutional review.
Synonyms correctly, rightly, right, all right - 1.1 Appropriately for the circumstances; suitably or respectably.
I'm trying to get my mother to behave properly Example sentencesExamples - If you felt you had some good points to make, you could have dressed them properly and not resorted to cheap journalism.
- I figured if something were going to happen to me, I wanted to at least be dressed properly.
- The ads poke fun at the problem parents, not at the ones who behave properly at their kids' games.
- They were behaving more properly, more respectably, than middle-class people at a funeral.
- Not knowing what to expect, I decided to dress properly and make a very good first impression.
- There is nothing wrong in being presentable and behaving properly where we are required to.
- No one does this properly anymore, at least not without some overbearing sense of irony.
- In my judgment she acted entirely properly in taking every step to protect her source.
- Keep your wits about you, behave properly and do as you would in your own country.
- I couldn't eat properly since holding a knife and fork was so alien and almost painful to me.
- If you must do this stuff, put the effort in and do it properly and respectfully.
- I don't think there's anybody who feels we've behaved properly in this at all.
- Others argue that belief in an afterlife is necessary to make us behave properly in this one.
- A senior officer insisted the force had adequate procedures to ensure officers behaved properly.
- Also, place them in suitable holders and make sure they are properly put out.
- It empowered societies to demand from their governments that they behave properly.
- Dead man or no dead man, she must be at her interview tomorrow and she must be properly dressed.
- You are never going to convert hard-line extremists by behaving properly, David concedes.
- On such trips, my partner launched a campaign to make me dress properly.
- Every minute seemed to last an hour and she couldn't have eaten her dinner properly if she'd tried.
Synonyms appropriately, correspondingly, suitably, fitly, duly, consistently, properly, correctly
2sentence adverb In the strict sense; exactly. algebra is, properly speaking, the analysis of equations Example sentencesExamples - The drive properly speaking, in the only sense faithful to Freud's discovery, is sexuality.
3British informal usually as submodifier Thoroughly; completely. this is the first day she has felt properly well Example sentencesExamples - Nor, I suggest, are we in this court in a position to explore it properly.
- The learned District Judge failed to take that fully and properly into account when she considered her order.
Synonyms in every respect, to the core |