Sentence examples for merely inappropriate from inspiring English sources

The Archbishop himself stopped just short of calling the Navy sacrilegious; "not merely inappropriate but very nearly sacrilegious" were his words.

Sophisticated tax dodging -- much of it falling in that gray region separating the flagrantly illegal from the merely inappropriate -- helps render actual rates meaningless.

"Not merely inappropriate but very nearly sacrilegious" is what Archbishop John Roach, the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, calls the Navy's decision to name its newest nuclear attack submarine the Corpus Christi.

"The spreading culture of self-enrichment, either corrupt, or merely inappropriate, makes scrutiny fuelled by whistleblowers who have the public interest at heart more essential than ever since 1994".

Rather, Austin is as we are—sensitive to more fine-grained appraisals of uses of bits of language and, when he judges that an utterance on an occasion would be false or nonsensical, he intends that judgment to contrast with less damaging negative appraisals for example, about what it would be merely inappropriate or impolite to say.

Trump wasn't merely inappropriate or ineloquent.

"That's just inappropriate".

And like this case, the key question was did he do something merely deemed inappropriate by sharing his bed with young boys, or did he take it one step further and molest them?

AIPAC carefully mutes its criticism of the Moskowitz-backed groups, not wanting to "overplay their influence". A spokesman merely termed "inappropriate" how they have broken the "consensus that our role is to respect the decisions of the government of Israel when it comes to security and life-and-death matters". Others are less polite.

But, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than half of the antibiotics prescribed these days for patients are inappropriate — merely killing good bacteria while weakening our immune systems and strengthening the bad bacteria, and we are fast approaching a day when we have nothing to cure us of these deadly bacterial infections.

Whether the material was indeed criminal or merely vile or inappropriate enough to result in their decertification -- maybe even prosecution -- is not knowable.