Crossword-Solution: UNSEEMLY 8 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Unseemly a. Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.
Unseemly adv. In an unseemly manner.

We have 27 clues for the answer “UNSEEMLY”

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not according to expected standards of behaviour 1 answer
Not in good taste 1 answer
"I've torn the pants" was the tailor's ____ confession 1 answer
Not becoming 2 answers
Socially improper 2 answers
BE INDECOROUS 3 answers
AN IMPROPER DEMEANOR 10 answers
DEEM WRONG OR INAPPROPRIATE 10 answers
In bad taste. 11 answers
Not Appropriate 11 answers
inapplicable 13 answers
inadmissible 19 answers
Indecorous 32 answers
bad form 35 answers
untoward 35 answers
Unfitting 36 answers
Malodorous 40 answers
saddening 48 answers
unsavoury 52 answers
inappropriate 53 answers
Unbecoming 53 answers
Malign 66 answers
Inopportune 67 answers
Tasteless 67 answers
indecent 68 answers
Improper 75 answers
Unfortunate 83 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMACE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNSEEMLY (5)

Changed into a weak old woman, With a staff she tottered onward, Wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly! And the sisters and their husbands Laughed until the echoing forest Rang with their unseemly laughter.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Was shee thy God, that her thou didst obey Before his voice, or was shee made thy guide, Superior, or but equal, that to her Thou did’st resigne thy Manhood, and the Place Wherein God set thee above her made of thee, And for thee, whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie: Adornd She was indeed, and lovely to attract Thy Love, not thy Subjection, and her Gifts Were such as under Government well seem’d, Unseemly to beare rule, which was thy part And person, had’st thou known thy self aright.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician’s words to excuse or palliate.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Ursula had dight her some due woman's raiment betwixt her knight's surcoat and doe-skins which they had gotten, so that it was not unseemly of fashion.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with UNSEEMLY (3)

Love has many positionings. Cordelia makes good progress. She is sitting on my lap, her arm twines, soft and warm, round my neck; she leans upon my breast, light, without gravity; the soft contours scarcely touch me; like a flower her lovely figure twines about me, freely as a ribbon. Her eyes are hidden beneath her lashes, her bosom is dazzling white like snow, so smooth that my eye cannot rest, it would glance off if her bosom were not moving. What does this movement mean? …
Soren Kierkegaard
The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series of hammer blows to mankind's self-regard. Geologists in particular seemed to have gone berserk, to have thrown off all sense of proper obeisance to their Maker... Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly rather — dare one say i…
Simon Winchester Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
George R.R. Martin A Dance with Dragons
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (2004–2024).