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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9 words match “UNSEEM”

UNSEEM v.
Not to seem. [Obs.] Shak.
UNSEEMING a.
Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.
UNSEEMLINESS n.
The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. Udall.
UNSEEMLY a. 2 definitions
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
IDEAL n.
ctions which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming. Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.
REVERENCE n.
a father. Shak. Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contracted form of Save your reverence. Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. "Sir reverence." Shak. -- To do reverence, to sh…
SEEMLESS a.
Unseemly. [Obs.] Spenser.
SQUABBLE v.
To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
UNBEHOVELY a.
Not behooving or becoming; unseemly. [Obs. & R.] Gower.