[
US
/ˌɪmˈpɹɑpɝɫi/
]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈɒpəli/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈɒpəli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an improper way
he checked whether the wound had healed improperly
How To Use improperly In A Sentence
- He claimed that the school district stepped over the line with its affirmative action plan and that race was improperly used to discriminate against the white teacher.
- The school's culinary dean recalls being hung from a meat hook for improperly boning veal during one of his 14-hour days as an apprentice in 1949 Germany.
- Failure to follow applicable notice requirements may render any action taken at the improperly called meeting invalid. Christianity Today
- Reinforce with surgery schedulers the need to return improperly completed procedure scheduling forms to physicians' offices.
- The study confirmed many reports that doctors were improperly trained.
- From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the The Adventures of Roderick Random
- There is a statute and common law offense known as embracery, which is defined to consist "in such practices as lead to affect the administration of justice, _improperly working upon the minds of jurors_. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
- Additional amounts of improperly reported income may be discovered.
- Commercial concerns, they argued, had improperly influenced the editorial process. Times, Sunday Times
- We do not condone violence of any kind and will ensure that anyone found to have acted improperly is dealt with accordingly. Times, Sunday Times