unseeming

verb, adj — 2 senses

unseeming

verb

Etymology From un- + seeming.

1

Obsolete hesitating; scrupling

  • You wrong the reputation of your name, In so unseeming to confess receipt Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

unseeming

adj

Etymology From un- + seeming.

1

Proscribed unseemly; inappropriate, or showing bad manners

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