Sentence examples similar to not so proper from inspiring English sources

There are also other considerations that aren't so proper that have entered into decisions such as these.

Memoirs by Arthur Gelb and Ben Hecht, she noted, both describe racier newsrooms a century ago — when "journalism was considered by many as 'a catch basin for hooligans, bar flies, and minor swindlers.' " Perhaps dwindling newspapers and magazines, Dowd suggested, should look to their not-so-proper past for instruction on how to survive their shrinking fortunes today.

The reduction in efficiency due to not-so-proper rewinding practices is also taken into account for the analysis.

Aquavit wasn't always so proper.

Not so much a proper Broadway musical as a marketing franchise.

However, this is not so easy without proper modeling of the respiratory pathways under different oxygen concentration.

Here are a few hIthlights hitting stores.

Terms like "handicapped" and "differently abled", which were seen as proper not so long ago, are now problematic.

I saw him with his new band on Later… not so long ago – a proper musician and not just a rock-star idiot.

My dining companions thought it was appropriate to tell our waiter that the sauce was too sweet; I am not so sure that was the proper thing to do.

At three hours, the journey is ample enough to make it feel like a proper adventure, yet not so long that it drags.