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UK
/ˌæpɹəpˈəʊ/
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[ US /ˌæpɹəˈpoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˌæpɹəˈpoʊ/ ]
ADVERB
-
at an opportune time
your letter arrived apropos -
introducing a different topic
incidentally, I won't go to the party
ADJECTIVE
- of an appropriate or pertinent nature
How To Use apropos In A Sentence
- Your Honours, apropos of what our learned friend said about the Justice's judgment, in our submission, it highlights the error.
- I had a letter from Sally yesterday - apropos which, did you send her that article?
- _malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, Ruth
- Some of you recoil at the term Gestapo but I think that that is apropos for what is being talked about here. Latest Articles
- A final word apropos of post-pop museology: Although this show has just opened, the first edition of the exhibition catalog has already sold out, which proves that an historical show rich in cultural implication can draw people to its concerns. Art and Design in the Lab
- Quotes are fine and sometimes apropos depending on the conversation's tone and topic, however, keep in mind who will be reading the e-mail and the perception your opinion via the quote you include will leave.
- He had nothing to say apropos of the latest developments.
- The point is raised again later, apropos the unpolitic word ‘Demut’.
- Nothing could be more "apropos" to quote Walter's expression. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
- Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction. Traffics and Discoveries