Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Misbecoming; unbecoming; sorry.
- noun Simulation.
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- adjective literary
Unseemly ,unbecoming .
Etymologies
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From mis- + seeming.
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Examples
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And this misseeming hew your manly looks doth marre?
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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8 That of yourself you thus berobbed are, berobbed > robbed (the prefix is intensive) 9 And this misseeming hue your manly looks does mar? misseeming hue > unseemly appearance manly > {Pertaining to human beings; also: manly, in the modern sense} 108.43
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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8 Who, with her witchcraft and misseeming sweet, misseeming sweet > sweet [but] deceptive appearance; _or: _ deceiving sweetness
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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