Sentence examples for less properly from inspiring English sources

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More populism and less "properly" wouldn't have gone amiss.

Even in airports, there are places where you can eat more or less properly.

Having purportedly embraced democracy, the Kremlin cannot tolerate being told it does elections any less properly than the West.

And there you are: that night he made love to me, properly — or more or less properly.

In his "Canticle of the Creatures" (less properly called by such names as the "Praises of Creatures" or the "Canticle of the Sun"), he referred to "Brother Sun" and "Sister Moon," the wind and water, and even "Sister Death".

The international community had long been prepared to back the Touré regime despite the numerous accusations of corruption, involvement in cocaine smuggling and lack of resolve in its fight against Islamic terrorism that had dogged it in the last few years, simply because Mali was seen as one of those rare African democracies that seemed to function more or less "properly".

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In the roles that are more or less cast properly, Nigel Gore as Dorn definitely looks right when more than once he gives the moody doctor's age as 55.

Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration, properly deployed, has more impact than a lot.

For Hitler's realm was less a properly functioning state than a cult run by criminals in the name of a godlike leader.

Suppose one holds instead that justice requires an equal distribution of benefits and burdens among the members of society, except when inequality arises in a way for which the person who ends up with less should properly be held responsible (Cohen 2008).

It costs less to properly dispose of wastes than spraying them on roads to control dust (remember Times Beach, Mo.?).

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