unseeming
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
unseeming
- (obsolete) hesitating; scrupling
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- You wrong the reputation of your name,
In so unseeming to confess receipt
Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
Adjective edit
unseeming (comparative more unseeming, superlative most unseeming)
- (proscribed) unseemly; inappropriate, or showing bad manners