unseemliness

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.

Antonyms

• seemliness

Translations

State

• French: malséance (fr) f