Proper and Textbook

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Proper adjective - Following the established traditions of refined society and good taste.

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Textbook and proper are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Textbook" instead an adjective "Proper".

Nearby Words: property, properly

Textbook adjective - Constituting, serving as, or worthy of being a pattern to be imitated.

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Proper and textbook are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Proper" instead an adjective "Textbook".

Chaos' Legions of Hell just wouldn't be proper daemons if some of them didn't have more teeth than a dentition textbook, usually sticking out at odd and possibly noneuclidean angles.

Source: More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Shown Their Work: The usage of real historical names, mostly in proper context (Tea taking the place of Henry Tudor's wife Elizabeth of York), show that someone on the development team had a history textbook handy.

Source: Video Game / Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists Of The Roses
Proper Lady: Elizabeth may be a little too forceful to be a textbook example, but all she really wants is to be a housewife and settle down with a husband and family the way the original Virgin Queen never got to.

Source: Manga / Afterschool Charisma

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