UNSEEMLY
ADJECTIVES
► BIT ROUGH, A unseemly, lewd, indecent → 1988 Aust. sl.
► BIT RUGGED, A unseemly, lewd, indecent → 1988 Aust. sl.
► DEDECOROUS disgraceful, reproachful, shameful, dishonourable, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, dishonest → 1727 obs.
► MIS-SEEMING misbecoming, unseemly → a1522
► PRETEXTATIZED made unseemly, equivocal, or obscene →1854 obs.
► RANCID in poor taste; unseemly, offensive → 1989 US sl.
► UNBESEEMLY unseemly → 1648
► UNCOTH strange, unfamiliar; unusual; unseemly → 1684 Eng. dial.
► UNCOUTHY unseemly → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► UNFARRANTLY not nice, unseemly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNMENSEFUL disorderly; unmannerly; unseemly; indecent → 1838 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► UNQUOTH strange, unfamiliar; unusual; unseemly → 1684 Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► UNCOMELILY in an unseemly manner; unfittingly → c1420 obs.
NOUNS
► BAY an unseemly mass → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► DORBEL anything that has an unseemly appearance → 1592 obs.
VERBS
► MIS-SEEM to misbecome → a1500
► UNBESEEM to be unseemly or unbecoming for a person → a1657
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