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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unbeseeming en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. unbecoming; not seemly
    • they are so cholerick and tetty, that no man may speak with them, and break many times into violent passions, oaths, imprecations, and unbeseeming speeches 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

Forms

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more unbeseeming Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unbeseeming Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unbeseemingness · unbeseemingly

unbeseeming en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unbeseem
    form of unbeseem