Definition: 1. Limited to the thing specified. 2. Appropriate for a condition or occasion. 3. Right, appropriate or correct; according to the rules. 4. That you consider to be real and of a good enough standard.
Use 'proper' in a sentence:
1. That's messed things up good and proper.
2. We will produce him at the proper time.
3. You see, the woman had no proper spirit.
4. He denied that he'd failed to keep a proper lookout that night.
5. You must have felt a proper charlie!
6. In twenty years of marriage he has only taken two proper vacations.
7. You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper.
8. Choose proper programs and watch with them.
9. The BBC thought it was right and proper not to show the film.
10. Britain imposed fines on airlines which bring in passengers without proper papers.
11. We're in a proper mess now.
12. First, choose the proper time to do it.
13. Capitalize all proper nouns but not the articles (a, an) that precede them.
14. Use proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
15. Poems can be written on any proper subject.
16. The knee-jerk reaction to this is to call for proper security in all hospitals.
17. She's a proper little madam.
18. The horses' hooves often could not get a proper grip.
19. Eat some proper food, not just toast and jam!
20. You can't tell her that joke ─ she's much too prim and proper.
21. We often neglect to make proper use of our bodies.
22. His family insisted he should be given a proper burial.
23. In those days it was not thought entirely proper for a woman to be on the stage.
24. He helped to put things in their proper place.
25. Catherine demonstrated the proper way to cleanse the face.
26. I would have thought it a proper job for the Army to fight rebellion.
27. So far as I am aware, no proper investigation has ever been carried out into the subject.
28. When are you going to get a proper job?
29. The town has already put in a proper sewerage system.
30. Proper records are just not kept.
31. Give a proper title to the passage.
32. Complaints must be made through the proper channels.
33. He makes a proper shopping list.
34. Please follow the proper procedures for dealing with complaints.
35. He is always perfectly proper in his behaviour.
36. I always cook a proper evening meal.
37. Social services should pay proper regard to the needs of inner-city areas.
38. Passengers must carry proper documentation.
39. We should have had a proper discussion before voting.
40. They should be treated with the dignity proper to all individuals created by God.
41. Two out of five people lack a proper job.
42. Nothing is in its proper place.
43. The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
44. More people will be doing the work with proper supervision and thus, more safely.
45. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper.
46. The development was planned without proper regard to the interests of local people.
