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  • adverb In an unseeming manner.

Etymologies

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unseeming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And I was able to take my otherwise unseemingly gay persona and weld myself to the cause of every gay man, lesbian woman, and transsexual being.

    C. Brian Smith: The Worst of Sarah Palin Festers in California 2009

  • Jackie Estacado has been bestowed with the Darkness, an unseemingly evil concoction of ascendancy.

    Comic Review: The Darkness #1-3: Raw Edition 2008

  • But it's an unseemingly association that the McCains say they've been looking for an opening to attack Obama over.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2008 2008

  • The funeral feast, therefore, being a general custom throughout Scotland, was not, in the opinion of those who were to share it, unseemingly mingled, on the present occasion, with the festivities which hailed the succession to the chieftainship.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Yeah, it is unseemingly to keep an incompetent man in a job were his poor performance gets people killed unnecessarily.

    Think Progress » Right Wing Swiftboats Generals Who Called on Rumsfeld to Resign 2006

  • We have thousands, if not millions, of people out there breaking the law, and unseemingly.

    Dear Scott Simms 2005

  • Anyhow, Halo came out for the X-Box, made a tremendous wad of cash, got lots of people to buy the thing and was praised by all and sundry as the Best Thing Ever, with even the usually-more-difficult-to-excite-than-Al-Gore Edge magazine getting unseemingly excited and awarding it maximum points, which felt rather wrong, a bit like Barry Norman giving a five-star review to Debbie Does Dallas.

    Halo: Combat Evolved Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Anyhow, Halo came out for the X-Box, made a tremendous wad of cash, got lots of people to buy the thing and was praised by all and sundry as the Best Thing Ever, with even the usually-more-difficult-to-excite-than-Al-Gore Edge magazine getting unseemingly excited and awarding it maximum points, which felt rather wrong, a bit like Barry Norman giving a five-star review to Debbie Does Dallas.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • As expected chavismo is gloating, including very, very unseemingly the new president of the TSJ who was not involved directly in that decision although we can be quite certain he orchestrated it.

    03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005 2005

  • We have thousands, if not millions, of people out there breaking the law, and unseemingly.

    Dear Scott Simms 2005

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