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improperly
adverb as in poorly
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Ring reports to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that it has received 85 incident reports involving use of improper screws, with 23 cases of ignition involving minor property damage and eight cases of minor personal burns.
It alleges that poll workers in Maricopa County gave improper instructions to some residents who used voting machines, possibly causing votes to go uncounted.
Watchdog groups have “meticulously cataloged” the ways regulators have “failed to safeguard the public from improper diversion of prescription opioids,” Walmart’s lawyers said in the 54-page complaint.
To put it in perspective, 297,000 die annually from diseases caused by improper sanitation.
Lawhon says the problem is not just improper waste practices by visitors, but overwhelmed agencies struggling to keep up while maintaining pandemic-safe levels of staffing and operations.
When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.
Down syndrome and other chromosomal rearrangements are often accompanied by improperly functioning organs and immune systems.
Second, those who are getting injured by doing the exercises improperly often fall into one of three camps.
Unfortunately, medication can only do so much and has ill effects if used improperly, and medication is all I have to offer.
They call for Christians to reject the discovery because the “announcement may be improperly understood and reported.”
The Crown of Ireland had been most improperly described in public instruments as an imperial Crown.
Men have frequently, improperly esteemed the exercise as one that should be had recourse to, only on some great emergency.
Voting must be performed carefully because a defaced, improperly marked ballot may be challenged and thrown out.
These four American animals have, therefore, very improperly been named tigers.
The names of ape and monkey, therefore, have been very improperly applied to the sapajous and the sagoins.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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