Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unbeseem
adjectiveunbeseeming (comparative more unbeseeming, superlative most unbeseeming)
comparative more unbeseeming · superlative most unbeseeming
- unbecoming; not seemly
they are so cholerick and tetty, that no man may speak with them, and break many times into violent passions, oaths, imprecations, and unbeseeming speeches
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
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