"be inappropriate"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Definitely tending to replace more "judgmental" terms like "obscene" and
"immoral":

2011  reviewer of _Bad Teacher_ at Amazon com
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Teacher/product-reviews/B005SAV9SO/ref=cm_cr_pr_hist_4?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addFourStar&showViewpoints=0
 : Cameron Diaz plays the Bad Teacher and is so bad she's downright vicious
and inappropriate. There's very little that's redeeming with her....

Having seen the movie, I can tell you that "obscene" and "immoral" (and
"criminal") are the words this reviewer is looking for. (Not that it wasn't
fitfully amusing for those of us who never missed an issue of _National
Lampoon_.)

JL


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> He clearly said, "I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period."
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdcvucjDTts   [at 1:07].
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> > Just sounds like an -ly drop to me. Especially with a long word like
> that, who wants to go adding another syllable?
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> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Seattle, WA
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> > On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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> >> This looks like a blend to me:
> >> "I've never acted inappropriately" + "I've never done anything =
> >> inappropriate."
> >> Gerald Cohen
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> >> ________________________________
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> >> Original message from: Joel S. Berson, Wed 11/9/2011 8:20 PM
> >> <snip>
> >> I think I heard Cain say "I've never acted inappropriate [yes, adj.]
> >> with anyone, period."  But I'm too lazy to investigate.
> >> <snip>
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