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Adverb: properly  pró-pu(r)-lee
  1. In the right manner; correctly; suitably
    "please do your job properly!";
    - decently, decent, right
     
  2. Indicating exactness or preciseness
    "he was doing properly what she had told him to do"; "Properly speaking, all true work is religion.";
    - precisely, exactly, just
     
  3. In accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances
    "If you don't behave properly, you'll have to leave!";
    - appropriately, suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly, duly, appositely

Antonym: inappropriately