Unseemly

a.	1.	Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. - Hawthorne.
adv.	1.	In an unseemly manner.

Adj.

1.

unseemly - not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" Synonyms: indecent, uncomely, untoward, indecorous, unbecoming

Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, awkward, bad, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crassly, criminal, crude, crudely, delinquent, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, doggerel, dysphemistic, evil, futile, graceless, gross, grossly, hardly the thing, harsh, ignominious, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, illegal, impolitic, improper, improperly, imprudent, impure, in bad taste, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecently, indecorous, indecorously, indelicate, indelicately, indiscreet, inelegant, inelegantly, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infelicitous, inopportune, irrelevant, lascivious, lewd, low, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, malodorous, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, naughty, not done, not the thing, obscene, off-base, off-color, offensive, offensively, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out-of-line, outlandish, raffish, ribaldly, risque, rough, roughly, rowdy, rude, rudely, ruffianly, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, tasteless, terrible, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled-for, uncourtly, uncouth, uncouthly, undecorous, undesirable, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, ungodly, ungraceful, unhappy, unladylike, unlawful, unmeet, unpolished, unprofitable, unqualified, unrefined, unrighteous, unseasonable, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untastefully, untimely, untoward, unwise, vulgar, vulgarly, wicked, wrong, wrongful

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