Usually means: Not conforming to established standards.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word improperly:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. improperly: Merriam-Webster
  2. improperly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. improperly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. improperly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Improperly, improperly: Wordnik
  6. improperly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. improperly: Wiktionary
  8. Improperly, improperly: Dictionary.com
  9. improperly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Improperly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. improperly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. improperly: Rhymezone
  13. Improperly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. improperly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. improperly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. improperly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. improperly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. improperly: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. improperly: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (improperly)

▸ adverb:  In an improper manner; not properly.

Similar:
unproperly, inappropriately, incorrectly, unfitly, inaptly, unsuitably, wrong, inadequately, erroneously, unfittingly, more...

Opposite:
correctly, appropriately, suitably, rightly

Types:
illegally, unethically, unlawfully, unfairly, immorally, unjustly, unscrupulously, more...

Phrases:
inflates improperly, apply improperly, do wrongly or improperly, take over improperly, improperly altered, more...



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Similar:
unproperly, inappropriately, incorrectly, unfitly, inaptly, unsuitably, wrong, inadequately, erroneously, unfittingly, more...

Opposite:
correctly, appropriately, suitably, rightly

Types:
illegally, unethically, unlawfully, unfairly, immorally, unjustly, unscrupulously, more...

Phrases:
inflates improperly, apply improperly, do wrongly or improperly, take over improperly, improperly altered, perform improperly, obtained improperly, improperly bold, employ improperly, more...



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