0 the quality or fact of not being seemly (= socially suitable and polite):
The unseemliness of your conduct is inexcusable.
He became ashamed of the unseemliness of his appearance.
He complains about the unseemliness of her behaviour in front of a reporter.
The unseemliness and filth of the poor cottage was too disgusting for his family.
Put aside the unseemliness of a billionaire politician trying to deflect criticism by collecting checks for an unimpeachable cause.
And so, beholding her impatience and unseemliness, he would realize the folly of an ill temper and thus learn by antithesis to curb his own.
The unseemliness of the thing offended my sense of propriety.
It is the penalty of all original thinking that it inspires fools to unseemliness as well as wise men to action.
No doubt the applause of his auditors urged him on to occasional unseemliness.
