properly, adv.
freq. cnt. 22
freq. cnt. 22
in the right manner; correctly; suitably
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decent decently properly right
sample sentences
"please do your job properly!""can't you carry me decent?"
in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances
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appropriately befittingly duly fitly fittingly properly suitably
sample sentences
"he was appropriately dressed""If you don't behave properly, you'll have to leave!"
"I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed"
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indicating exactness or preciseness
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exactly just precisely properly
sample sentences
"he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do""it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"
"it has just enough salt"
"Properly speaking, all true work is religion."--Thomas Carlyle
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