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Definition of Unseemly

Unseemly
Unseemly Un*seem"ly, a. Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. --Hawthorne.
Unseemly
Unseemly Un*seem"ly, adv. In an unseemly manner.

Meaning of Unseemly from wikipedia

- is widely seen as an acute crisis of leadership". It "degenerated into unseemly mudslinging between the ruling party and the opposition". Her challenger...
- use developed in early medieval Europe; in medieval Christianity it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched...
- out for Rome, arriving in October of the same year, and celebrated an unseemly triumph over fellow Romans. By this point he had started preparations for...
- while certain estimates may not be accurate, "quibbling about numbers is unseemly. What matters is that many, many people were killed by communist regimes...
- the animal is generally killed quickly and not tortured... There is an unseemly element in it, namely cruelty." The other issue is that hunting can be...
- mostly on his irony, which was deemed inappropriate for a philosopher and unseemly for a teacher. The Pyrrhonists were also antagonistic to Socrates, accusing...
- on the program, and many members of the public complained that it was unseemly to give a convicted felon air time to attack a former vice president. The...
- London, 2007 A Life Like Other People's (memoir), London, 2009 ****: Two Unseemly Stories (stories), London, 2011 Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology...
- Lenina that she should have more than one man in her life because it is unseemly to concentrate on just one. **** then warns Lenina away from a new lover...
- pejorative to refer to Jewish women who are not Orthodox or who demonstrate unseemly irreligious behavior. In other Orthodox communities, it can be used in...