Read full poem →With sevenfold powers.
Our love at best is cold and poor, at best unseemly
for Thy state,
Dictionary Entry
Inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.
In a Sentence
“He was drunk and made some very unseemly comments.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. unseemlyhaste unseemlyconduct unseemlymanner unseemlybehavior unseemly
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Poetry examples for “unseemly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →of black scull-cap, was the discriminating attire of their teachers.
This last article of dress occasioned an unseemly projection of their
ears, and procured those who affected it the nick-name of prick-eared
Read full poem →And each new impulse tends to make outflee
The unseemly instinct that had lodgment here;
Yet, comrade old, can bitterer knowledge be
Read full poem →personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance,
would be irrelevant and unseemly. The curiosity which demands such
morsels would be incapable of appreciating the richness of his work.
Read full poem →From bearing anything but pink blossoms all the year,
Fixed permanent lest their bellies wax unseemly, and the dear
Innocent days of them be wasted quite.