unmeetly

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UK/ʌnˈmiːtli/

adverb

In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.

First used 16th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adverbunmeetly (comparative more unmeetly, superlative most unmeetly)

comparative more unmeetly · superlative most unmeetly

  1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.First known use 16th c.

    they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.

    1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28

Origin

From unmeet + -ly.

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