Usually means: Meeting accepted moral and practical standards.
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  1. good and proper: Collins English Dictionary
  2. good and proper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. good and proper: Wiktionary
  4. good and proper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. good and proper: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. good and proper: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (good and proper)

▸ adverb:  (colloquial) decidedly; thoroughly

Similar:
proper, but good, officially, gradely, goodly, duly, gainly, right enough, downright, throughly, more...

Opposite:
bad, improper, wrong, immoral, unethical

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Similar:
proper, but good, officially, gradely, goodly, duly, gainly, right enough, downright, throughly, more...

Opposite:
bad, improper, wrong, immoral, unethical



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