unseeming

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verb

hesitating; scrupling

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoletehesitating; scrupling

    You wrong the reputation of your name, In so unseeming to confess receipt Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]
adjectiveunseeming (comparative more unseeming, superlative most unseeming)

comparative more unseeming · superlative most unseeming

  1. proscribedunseemly; inappropriate, or showing bad manners

Origin

From un- + seeming.

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Cite this entry
APA

unseeming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseeming

MLA

“unseeming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseeming. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unseeming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unseeming.

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