"feeling proper" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe someone feeling proud or dignified about themselves or their accomplishments. For example, "After receiving acceptance letters from the top three universities, John was feeling proper."
And she is surely feeling a proper clot.
Not, mind you, because of the lost revenue, but because these "lucky duckies" -- The Journal's term, not mine -- might not be feeling a proper hatred for the government.
Lower left - The "Turn and Bank Indicator" is a dual instrument which tells how fast you are changing the compass heading (rate of turn) and also whether you are in co-ordinated flight, feeling the proper (down-in-the-seat) Gs from the turn.
Not opposed to a legitimate place for emotion in ethical discourse, Aristotle outlined the importance of feeling at the proper times and for good reasons.
Where women did disclose how they were feeling, and where proper specialist services were in place, many avoided being admitted to hospital and did well, participants heard.
Harking back to the sophomore summer of 2004 when he moved into that house in the Valley, Zuckerberg dismissed The Social Network's portrait of it as a party den beset with booze and attractive Californians, but added that Facebook was only months away from feeling like a proper company.
Like this one time I was in the library in uni talking to this Nigerian chick called Anuli who was proper feeling me, and I'm sitting at a computer, typing up some essay on the screen and she's sitting next to me, she'd just bought herself some Nando's takeaway and it was sitting in the standard brown paper bag just under the desk by her feet and we're talking in loud whispers.
The couple wanted a "proper" staircase, feeling that space-saving spiral versions would feel "precarious".
Intellect gives names to real emotions.When Auden talks, say, about the "Age of Anxiety," he is giving a common feeling a proper name.
There is no feeling that proper punishment has been allotted, and no sense at all that the affair has come to an end.
