Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being unseemly; uncomeliness; indecency; indecorum; impropriety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
unseemly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lack of consideration for others
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Examples
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The gathering of the world kings with the beast against the Lamb is the signal for Christ's coming; therefore He here gives the charge to be watching for His coming and clothed in the garments of justification and sanctification, so as to be accepted. thief -- (Mt 24: 43; 2Pe 3: 10). they -- saints and angels. shame -- literally, "unseemliness" (Greek, "aschemosunee"): Greek, 1Co
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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And now he laughed, too high for my liking, its unseemliness echoing off the walls.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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And now he laughed, too high for my liking, its unseemliness echoing off the walls.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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Funny how attracted one can be to unseemliness until they have suspicions that their mother is a prostitute.
Madeline Writes To Georgina Laurence Wilhelm Lillvik 2011
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Editorial writers would tsk-tsk the unseemliness of their quick resort to negative advertising.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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