unseemliness

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English

Etymology

From unseemly +‎ -ness.

Noun

unseemliness (countable and uncountable, plural unseemlinesses)

  1. The state of being unseemly.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174:
      Indeed, on several occasions, the Bishop of Lincoln was forced to upbraid both abbess and nuns for unseemliness in dress and behaviour.

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