Adjective: beseemly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more beseemly |
| Superlative | most beseemly |
Sample Sentences
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In beseemly order sitten there. [1742, William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress:]
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To Connel's shop my SUSAN will I bring,
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To fit her finger with the wedding-ring;
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Procure the licence, and all else beside,
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Fit and beseemly for my bonny bride [1805, Ewan Clark, The Rustic:]
Adjectives inflected like beseemly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Compare seemly.