Sentence examples for looking proper from inspiring English sources

"Looking proper" is not a standard phrase in written English, so it should not be used.
Instead, you could say "looking neat and proper" or something similar. For example: "The children were walking to school, looking neat and proper in their uniforms."

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Wade's stylist, Calyann Barnett, recently told Local 10, "I think he has always loved looking proper.

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It would not look proper if we told the truth.

A bearded, open-necked town clerk, it seems, just wouldn't look proper.

"They don't look proper on a course like that," he said.

She overcompensates in her effort to look proper; she borrows the most obvious references to conventional femininity.

It wouldn't look proper for the dean of a business school to have foot pedals and a force-feedback joystick in his office.

It was the sort of dress an older woman might have worn and made look proper in a fussy way, but my aunt could not help looking as if she were taking part in some slightly risqué celebration.

Questions like "What would look sexy?" or "What would look proper?" are brushed aside, leaving one desperate quest: how to get through the next 12 hours with the least amount of suffering.

Southern viewers may occasionally require a translator, for moments such as when one girl explains she doesn't want to take off her nail varnish because her hands will look "proper scratty" (scruffy).

And a pat-down can look proper, but it can feel like rape.

Some say such tactics may alienate supporters: wear sweaters and suits so as not to turn off the workers; look proper to get the job done.

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