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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

- 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...
- in only a few inscriptions. Female gladiators were officially banned as unseemly from 200 AD onwards, but the word gladiatrix does not appear until late...
- 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...
- nature. However, the wines had to be packaged in opaque bottles to hide the unseemly turbidity and sediment that the "in-bottle MLF" produced. Today, most Vinho...
- Memorable Attempts of Magnanimous Minds; Pleasaunt for Gentlemen, not unseemly for Magistrates, and most profitable for Prentises, celebrated the rise...
- wrote that emperor Augustus had reproached Nero's grandfather for his unseemly enjoyment of violent gladiator games. According to Jürgen Malitz, Suetonius...
- prefers to leave unexplored, carving a niche catering to those of us with an unseemly obsession with life's darkest, most depraved sides." Parfrey was born in...
- landings." Jody Rosen in the New York Times said that "There is something unseemly, to put it mildly, about the famous and fabulously wealthy urging crypto...
- propriety, have traditionally looked down upon humour as subversive or unseemly. Humour was perceived as irony and sarcasm. The Confucian Analects itself...
- is widely seen as an acute crisis of leadership". It "degenerated into unseemly mudslinging between the ruling party and the opposition". Her challenger...