Sentence examples for not really proper from inspiring English sources

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Postdocs "are in between... not really proper citizens of their institution".

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It's not really a proper album".

According to Bugg, Styles's band, One Direction, are not really a proper group at all.

Sometimes parents assume that if it is something easy, or something the child likes doing anyhow, it's not really a proper sacrifice.

He deplores traditional rhetoric, which is "not really a proper discipline" but rather "a rag-bag of poorly defined, barely agreed, contradictory, and often overlapping concepts," but his nomenclature is liable to the same objections.

The rap sheet is confusing, but includes the allegation that she worked despite only holding a tourist visa (which is untrue), and the insinuation that she is not really a proper journalist (you decide).

But even then, some astronomers argue, Pluto will still not be the most distant planet because, they say, Pluto is not really a proper planet at all.It fails, for example, to fit into either of the two categories occupied by the other eight major planets.

Did you know, for example, that for all the talk about zero hours contracts, there's not really a proper definition of what a zero hours contract really is? Or, how about the fact that apparently good economic news can be bad news at the same time?

"There's not really a proper frontside flip until Koston or Carroll.

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Bram: I've done some reading on this – there's not really a proper plan for this yet.

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