unseemly

«unseemly» in Mova's school dictionary: not proper or polite for a person to do, so that others… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unseemly, more unseemly)

meaning for a pupil

Unseemly means not proper or polite for a person to do, so that others would think it rude or wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the tales, a great man is told that something is unseemly for his rank; in talk an «unseemly fuss» means behaviour that is not fitting

examples

• It would be unseemly to laugh at a funeral. tree →
• His shouting at the teacher was unseemly. tree →
• It is unseemly for a prince to beg. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unseemly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.