adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appropriate/inappropriate formal (= suitable/not suitable for that situation )
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Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate , unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers.
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After a brief debate in the parliament, his scheme was dismissed as inappropriate .
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The name Mad Axe is about as inappropriate as anyone could imagine.
clearly
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Topocide is an emotional issue; quantitative research procedures were clearly inappropriate .
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The entrepreneurial definition is clearly inappropriate here.
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It is clearly inappropriate to involve Julie in a prolonged conversation as soon as she arrives on the ward.
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If the agreement is clearly inappropriate or fails to reflect what has already been agreed, this can be counter-productive.
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The patient's engagement in such exploration may sometimes be facilitated by including a clearly inappropriate possibility that he can easily reject.
entirely
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Parallels with Simon de Montfort, the Valence and Joinville families are not entirely inappropriate .
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But I also know that a word which is acceptable in the locker room can be entirely inappropriate for the classroom.
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It was entirely inappropriate , but she couldn't help herself.
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Such immunity would be entirely inappropriate in the case of an operating lease.
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Nor is the dragon entirely inappropriate in a story relating to a king supposedly descended from a sea-monster.
quite
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Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system.
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It has cloaked it in pedantic, complicated, incomprehensible language which is also quite inappropriate .
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Indeed, it seems that in some cases an interpretation in terms of emphasis is quite inappropriate .
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Here one is dealing with social situations which are relatively unexplored and where sample surveys may be quite inappropriate .
totally
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Ireland, with inflation above 6 %, has negative real interest rates, which is totally inappropriate .
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Nothing would destroy her - least of all these totally inappropriate emotions for a man who had brought her nothing but misery.
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Fine for a static Dalek, but totally inappropriate for a mobile machine.
wholly
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The acts, implying possession in one case, may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another.
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Quite apart from questions of sample size and representativeness, this particular aggregation is wholly inappropriate .
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Chief Inspector Davina Logan described the sentence as wholly inappropriate .
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The same terms are used to describe very different products and some terms are wholly inappropriate .
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Many of the burdensome covenants inserted in the former kind of lease will be wholly inappropriate to the latter.
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One of these is the notion of detachment between professionals and clients which is wholly inappropriate in teaching.
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For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate .
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One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate .
■ NOUN
behaviour
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These feelings of being out of control can lead to inappropriate behaviour - maybe submissive behaviour.
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Within the official school framework there are penalties for inappropriate behaviour and the pupils acknowledge, at least, its theoretical structure.
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The negative consequences of inappropriate behaviour should be predictable to the child: he/she should know what to expect.
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Get the child to practise positive behaviours which are physically incompatible with the inappropriate behaviour .
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Not allowing any form of inappropriate behaviour .
language
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Our door is painted a bright green colour with numerous messages using inappropriate language and phrases covering its exterior.
response
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Teenagers often make inappropriate responses to conflicts such as aggression, withdrawing, sulking, tantrums or destructive behaviour.
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All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful.
use
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An inappropriate use of the Legal Adviser's skills.
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Any of the following options would effectively reduce inappropriate use than would any technical change in legislation.
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The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics.
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This then raises the question as to what is the inappropriate use of an acute hospital bed?
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The environmental groups cite a number of examples of inappropriate use of the funds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A poster showing a nude woman is wholly inappropriate for the office.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any strike you as particularly inappropriate ?
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Clark said it would be inappropriate to comment on his relationship with Beier.
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For Mr Johns an incorrect diagnosis led to inappropriate treatment.
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If such discriminations are appropriate to birds, why should they be inappropriate in the case of men?
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May contain some material parents consider inappropriate for young children.
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Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system.
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The acts, implying possession in one case, may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another.
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