Unseemly \Un*seem"ly\, a.
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.
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An unseemly outbreak of temper. --Hawthorne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unseemly \Un*seem"ly\, adv.
In an unseemly manner.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unseemly
adj : not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or
proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent
haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to
a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb
their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous,
unbecoming, uncomely, untoward]
WordNet (r) 2.0
168 Moby Thesaurus words for "unseemly":
Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, awkward, bad,
barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, chintzy, clumsy, coarse,
coarsely, crassly, criminal, crude, crudely, delinquent, deviant,
discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, doggerel, dysphemistic,
evil, futile, graceless, gross, grossly, hardly the thing, harsh,
ignominious, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen,
ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited,
ill-timed, illegal, impolitic, improper, improperly, imprudent,
impure, in bad taste, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable,
inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, inconcinnate,
inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent,
indecently, indecorous, indecorously, indelicate, indelicately,
indiscreet, inelegant, inelegantly, inept, inexpedient, infamous,
infelicitous, inopportune, irrelevant, lascivious, lewd, low,
mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, malodorous, misjoined,
mismatched, mismated, misplaced, naughty, not done, not the thing,
obscene, off-base, off-color, offensive, offensively,
out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line,
out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time,
out of tune, out-of-line, outlandish, raffish, ribaldly, risque,
rough, roughly, rowdy, rude, rudely, ruffianly, sacrilegious,
scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, tasteless, terrible,
unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming,
uncalled-for, uncourtly, uncouth, uncouthly, undecorous,
undesirable, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfit,
unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungenteel, ungentlemanly,
ungodly, ungraceful, unhappy, unladylike, unlawful, unmeet,
unpolished, unprofitable, unqualified, unrefined, unrighteous,
unseasonable, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untastefully,
untimely, untoward, unwise, vulgar, vulgarly, wicked, wrong,
wrongful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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