Antonyms for properlyprop·er·ly

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1. properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right wayadverb

   in the right manner

   "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

   Antonyms:
   improperly

   Synonyms:
   in good order, the right way, by rights, powerful, decently, justly, flop, right on, mightily, right, correctly, mighty, aright, decent

2. by rights, properlyadverb

   with reason or justice

   Antonyms:
   improperly

   Synonyms:
   decent, decently, in good order, the right way, by rights, right

How to use properly in a sentence?

1. Paul Valery:

   La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

2. Tony Blair:

   I've said many times over these past years, I'll wait for the report and then I will make my views known and express myself fully and properly.

3. Robert Ndetei:

   If you don’t plan properly, if you don’t do proper environmental-impact assessments, then you are doomed to fail, and at the Nairobi National Park this could lead to more lions and other animals coming into contact with a growing human presence.

4. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

   When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

5. Poonam Muttreja:

   Women do need sterilization as a option of family planning, but we need it conducted properly and under hygienic conditions. The manner in which sterilization is being done in India currently is unethical, we will see a huge reduction in maternal mortality if we invest in other methods of family planning also.

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