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improper
1531 (implied in
improperly
) "not true," from Fr.
impropre
(14c.), from L.
improprius,
from
in
"not" +
proprius
(see
proper
). Meaning "not suited, unfit" is from 1570; that of "not in accordance with good manners, modesty, decency" is from 1739.
