Read full poem →Half-sleeping on a purple bed she rested; 20
Yet seemly like a Thracian Bacchanal,
That tired doth rashly[213] on the green grass fall.
Dictionary Entry
(of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
In a Sentence
“His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. seemlymanner seemlyfashion seemlyway seemly
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “seemly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And cast my injur’d sweets away,”--
Its silence seemly sigh’d--
“A moment’s idol of thy mind?
Read full poem →To watch the flittings of the shrieking bat,
Who, seemly pleas’d to mock our treacherous view,
Would even swoop and touch us as he flew,
Read full poem →But though he had breeches and waistcoats to spare,
He had nothing quite seemly for Barbree to wear,
Who, half shrammed to death, stood and cried on a chair
Read full poem →“Let such lodging be for a breath-while,” thought I,
“Soon a more seemly.
Read full poem →For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me: