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Etymology

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unseemly +‎ -ly

Adverb

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unseemlily (comparative more unseemlily, superlative most unseemlily)

  1. In an unseemly manner.
    • 1931, Virginia Woolf, The London scene:
      My eyes glisten unseemlily I know, and I grab and pounce with disgusting greed. But my husband is a small clerk in a bank; I have only fifteen pounds a year []