English edit

Etymology edit

mis- +‎ beseem

Verb edit

misbeseem (third-person singular simple present misbeseems, present participle misbeseeming, simple past and past participle misbeseemed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for misbeseem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)