"There is hardly any proper journalism now.
But Mr Lewis, with hardly a proper campaign, has a good chance.
Until then he had just been "Boz", a sketch writer and the hugely popular author of "The Pickwick Papers".But writing was hardly a proper job.
In any case, Mr. Bush is no right-wing nut, so shrugging his remark off as the sound of an extremist was hardly the proper response.
His cabinet – stiff, bearded, capable men, whom Navy Secretary Gideon Welles called "destitute of wit" – met his enthusiastic joking with blank stares and awkward sneezes; William P. Fessenden, the secretary of the Treasury, objected that comedy was "hardly a proper subject".
The successful entrant, Patience Gray, co-author of the 1950s bestselling cookbook Plats Du Jour, was thrilled to have won, if somewhat amazed: however clever and resourceful, she was hardly a "proper" journalist.
"I'm not even a Catholic properly away from you," he writes tenderly to one of his horde of lovers - a curious sentiment, since he was hardly a proper Catholic with her either.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is set in Pakistan, not India, in a "megalopolis" that mostly resembles Hamid's home town, Lahore (though neither the country nor the city is named – in fact there's hardly a proper noun in sight).
However, it can hardly make proper use of the resources due to poor internal water management practices.
Obviously not everyone can afford to do that and it's hardly a proper match day experience anyway.
