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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseemly/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseemly/#x1)
- His shouting at the teacher was unseemly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseemly/#x2)
- It is unseemly for a prince to beg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseemly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unseemly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unseemly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.