The word "appropriating" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb meaning "to take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission." For example, you could say "She was accused of appropriating her neighbor's tools without permission."
The Queen, probably the world's leading arbiter of social and sartorial protocol – thanks to decades of state visits and experience of dress codes – takes her cue from her hosts, appropriating a colour or a national emblem within a garment that itself sits within her own clothing comfort zone.
Indeed, all the members of this sable republic appear to have very loose notions of meum and tuum, and evince as much dexterity in appropriating the effects of their neighbours as any of the other worthies who have adorned the annals of the New Bailey [Manchester's main prison before Strangeways].
At once both realistic and artificial, the picture seems to present a riddle: which is truer, the paint or the image?What is interesting, three decades on, is the extent to which Chinese painters are appropriating both the original, and Warhol's version, of Mao's image.
Arab governments have inverted this refrain: by appropriating national energy resources and other rents, they neatly absolve themselves of the need to levy heavy taxes and therefore to win the consent of the governed.The devil you knowA less obvious source of state power is a pervasive fear of what might happen in its absence.
With his pledges of income equality and more jobs, Mr Kilicdaroglu seems bent on appropriating the role of champion of the underdog from AK, so eating into its traditional base in the shanty towns that encircle the big cities.
Often describing themselves as "queer"—they vex homophobes by appropriating their cherished term of abuse such activists demand not just legal equality for gays, but also special rights, to protect them from bigots' opinions as well as their fists.But with increasing public acceptance of homosexuality, leftist radicalism is being challenged by a growing movement of "conservative" homosexuals.
Your desire to display the success of gay people everywhere by appropriating an incorrect understanding of Thailand's queer folk therefore seems rather lazy.Wei Khai Singapore SIR – Thank you for the very accurate, well-written and sensitively documented article.
Yet Mr Renzi has generated growing political opposition with his ambitious agenda of liberal reforms, and his foes have been appropriating Mr Tsipras's win as their own.
His principle is resistance to "the modern world's project of appropriating and taming nature, of turning it into an object".
And what does the incident signal about the ability of corporate brands to present themselves as socially conscious players in the public sphere Americans' instinctive disdain for Race Together seems to be rooted in the sense that Starbucks was appropriating a serious social issue for its own economic gain.
The DUP is also busy appropriating other policies of his.
