proper
pro per
- a marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
proper medical treatment
proper manners - s having all the qualities typical of the thing specified; not just a snack"
wanted a proper dinner
he finally has a proper job - s limited to the thing specified
the city proper
his claim is connected with the deed proper - s appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
everything in its proper place
- The church must "reassume its ancient and proper responsibility and productivity with reference to all the arts," an undertaking that "it could well begin by purging its own arts .
- Eventually, someone associated with the mob allegedly hired a hit man to kill Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe, a gangmember who had been grousing that he had been cheated of his proper .
- The American professor seldom unpacks his academic robes for anything except founders' days and commencement, but the Oxford don swathes himself in proper hues for every day, is .