unmeetly

English

Etymology

From unmeet +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈmiːtli/

Adverb

unmeetly (comparative more unmeetly, superlative most unmeetly)

1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]

   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28:

     Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.