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unseemly | unseemlily |

As an adjective unseemly

is inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.

As an adverb unseemlily is

in an unseemly manner.

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

    unseemlily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an unseemly manner.
  • * 1931 , Virginia Woolf, The London scene
    • My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed. But my husband is a small clerk in a bank; I have only fifteen pounds a year...