suitable
She was afraid she might not have behaved suitably.
The new site is not suitably located.
She was still trying to come up with a suitably smart answer.
The restaurant dishes up suitably modern fare of nachos and grills.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptability
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
convenience
conveniently
correctly
correctness
decent
decently
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
properly
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevance

Examples of suitably

suitably
Their statements were often suitably vague about just what proportion of the timber would be devoted to meeting the demands of the state.
It assumes that electronic keyboards and pitched percussion instruments are available, alongside standard classroom percussion and at least one suitably loaded computer.
This gave him a suitably grand purpose, but made nonsense of the original scenario, so that more drastic alterations were now needed.
The book concludes with a very long literature list of 63 pages, suitably cross-referenced, covering the biology and taxonomy of solitary bees and wasps.
Indeed, he sets up a computational system which does precisely this, relative to a suitably constrained database as context.
Less demanding versions of context-independent decisiveness might require decisiveness only across some suitably defined but not all such profiles.
Therefore, we freely use the primitive notion of identity on objects, rather than a suitably defined equivalence on terms.
Two expressions/configurations are said to be observationally equivalent if they give rise to the same observations, suitably defined, inside all observing contexts.
The effects of more complicated small disturbances may be found by suitably differentiating and superposing such fundamental solutions.
This is true, but he is suitably cautious about drawing conclusions about implied subversiveness.
They can be implemented easily, be analysed mathematically with great precision, and, when suitably tuned, tend to be very efficient in practice.
The membrane was left to develop until the bands were suitably dark.
This asymptotic eigenfunction can then be suitably normalized.
The formalization of the structures underlying psychological representation at a suitably abstract level can reveal deep analogies between disparate domains.
We do this when we try to ensure that we will form suitably constraining higher-order beliefs about the connections between candidate goals and candidate facts.
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