Obscene vs Unseemly - What's the difference?
obscene | unseemly | Related terms |
Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
Lewd or lustful
Disgusting or repulsive
Beyond all reason
Liable to deprave or corrupt
Inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Obscene is a related term of unseemly.
As adjectives the difference between obscene and unseemly
is that obscene is obscene while unseemly is inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.obscene
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* The comparative obscener and superlative obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene' and ' most obscene .unseemly
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Alternative forms
* unsemely (archaic)Adjective
(er)- He was drunk and made some very unseemly comments.
- An unseemly outbreak of temper.