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Unseemly vs Distasteful - What's the difference?

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Unseemly is a related term of distasteful.


As adjectives the difference between unseemly and distasteful

is that unseemly is inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.

unseemly

English

Alternative forms

* unsemely (archaic)

Adjective

(er)
  • Inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.
    • He was drunk and made some very unseemly comments.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • An unseemly outbreak of temper.
  • * '>citation

    • Antonyms

    * seemly

    Related terms

    * unseemliness

    See also

    * inappropriate

    distasteful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distastefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing