Meaning & use
unseemliness
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The quality of being improper, inappropriate, or not in keeping with good taste or accepted standards of behavior.
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The committee censured him for the unseemliness of his public outburst.
There was an air of unseemliness about the way the deal was rushed through.
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The noun form of 'unseemly,' a word rooted in the old sense of 'seemly' meaning fitting or becoming.
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improprietyindecorum
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