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UK
/ɐpɹˈəʊpɹɪətnəs/
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[ US /əˈpɹoʊpɹiətnəs/ ]
[ US /əˈpɹoʊpɹiətnəs/ ]
NOUN
- appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
- the quality of being specially suitable
How To Use appropriateness In A Sentence
- Although controversy exists about the appropriateness of treating partners conjointly, there are a variety of reasons to recommend conjoint therapy for some couples in violent relationships.
- It won't entirely succeed, of course, but it puts the media on the defensive and makes them reflexively look for "inappropriateness" in the criticism and makes it necessary for everyone to issue a standard disclaimer saying "John McCain is hero and and I have nothing but respect and admiration for his great sacrifice and leadership but.... Hullabaloo
- Onset is insidious and course is slowly progressive. Psychiatric manifestations occur early and include social inappropriateness, disinhibition, delusions, ritualistic behavior, and mood disorders.
- The findings of these studies suggest that a low-fat diet and exercise (supervised by a physician for appropriateness) could minimize hepatic steatosis.
- Inappropriateness of mood quality (laughing in a sad situation) is not a pathognomonic sign and may reflect normal anxiety (e.g., gallows humor), as well as serious illness. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- As opposed to cuddling misbehaving toddlers and gently sing-songing the "inappropriateness" of what they're doing (as Mellor describes one mother's ineffectually doing, after her son tried to choke Mellor's), she suggests a sequence of old-fashioned disciplinary moves. Marshal Plan
- Both the actual process of creating such notes and the appropriateness and variety of the finished product will aid understanding and memorisation.
- insets" are sometimes mere pornography, and the whole thing is evidently scribbled at a gallop -- it was actually a few days 'work, to get money, from some French Curll or Drybutter, to give (the appropriateness of the thing at least is humorous) to the mistress of the moment, a Madame de Puisieux, [375] who, if she was like Crébillon's heroines in morals, cannot have been like the best of them in manners. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
- But you do not have the right to decide "appropriateness" for everyone. Ellen Hopkins: Banned Books Week 2010: An Anti-Censorship Manifesto
- If the doctor administers a drug to which the patient is known to be intolerant, or gives some other wrong treatment, should the inappropriateness of the medical treatment affect the causal enquiry?