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- adjective
comparative form ofunseemly : moreunseemly
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Examples
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Wreathed thus throughout, that Paris town, with beauty, and with unseemly sin, unseemlier death, as a fiend-city with fair eyes; forever letting fall her silken raiment so far as that one may "behold her bosom and half her side."
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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We’ve seen many things much unseemlier than a nice, quiet little resurrection in a respectable cemetery.”
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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