单词	unseemly
释义	unseemlyun‧seem‧ly /ʌnˈsiːmli/ adjective formal Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It was considered unseemly for women to smoke. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But a deal with the unionists would be an unseemly affair. He painted, finally, not the beautiful and rich, but the unseemly and chaotic popular classes. If closeness is unseemly when money and politics intertwine, it is not always determinative. It felt unseemly, somehow, to speak out on my own behalf. Like a sudden, unseemly outbreak of boils on the landscape, the little concrete igloos started popping up in the 1970s. Midgely avoids looking at his father's unseemly white chest. unseemly behaviour is not polite or not suitable for a particular occasion:  Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public.
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