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Inappropriate

adjective

Not suitable for a particular occasion etc. "Inappropriate shoes for a walk on the beach" , "Put inappropriate pressure on them"

Not in keeping with what is correct or proper. Synonyms: incompatible, out or keeping, unfitting.

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... mother, though with trembling lip and tearful eye, that "God would temper the wind to the shorn lamb." I smiled at the part I was meant to play in this cheerful allegory, though it seemed to me rather inappropriate, as I had a new ...

— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene

... regular patrons of Ranelagh expressed their obedience to the court edict by appropriate attire. One evening, however, it was observed that there were two gentlemen in the gardens dressed in coloured clothes. It was obvious they were strangers to the place and unknown to each other. Their inappropriate costume quickly attracted attention, and became the subject of general conversation, and, such a dearth was there of excitement, Lord Spencer Hamilton aroused feverish interest by laying a wager that before the night was out he would have the two strangers walking arm in arm. ...

— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley

... beautiful and imperious consort, Nur Jahan, and of her brother Asaf Khan, father of the lady of the Taj. Another building associated with Jahangir is Anarkali's tomb beside the Civil Secretariat. The white marble sarcophagus is a beautiful piece of work placed now in most inappropriate surroundings. The tomb was reared by the Emperor to commemorate the unhappy object of his youthful love. Half-a-mile off on the Multan road is the Chauburji, once the gateway of the Garden of Zebunnissa a learned daughter of Aurangzeb. The garden has ...

— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie

... Archduchess had submitted to having a plumed and inappropriate hat set high on her head, regardless of the fashion, and had pinned ...

— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... on the south side of the Kansas River, upon as inconvenient and inappropriate a site for a town as any in the Territory. It was chosen simply for speculative purposes. It contained, at the time of Gov. Geary's arrival, some twenty or more houses, the majority of which were employed as groggeries of the lowest description. It was the residence of the ...

— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

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