Synonyms for Unseemly

Synonyms for "unseemly" (216 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (44)

Adjective(5 words)

indecent untoward distasteful embarrassing icky

aberrant abnormal abominable atrocious awkward bad barbaric barbarous barefaced base cacophonous chintzy clumsy coarse coarsely crassly criminal crude crudely delinquent

Show 19 more words

deviant discreditable disgraceful dishonorable disreputable doggerel doric dowdy dysphemistic evil futile gnominious graceless gross grosslyhardly the thingharsh ignominious ill-adapted

Strong matches (64)

ill-advised ill-assorted ill-chosen ill-considered ill-fitted ill-matched ill-sorted ill-suited ill-timed illegal impolitic improper improperly imprudent impurein bad tasteinadmissible inadvisable inapplicable inapposite

Show 33 more words

Adjective(11 words)

immodest immoralimmoral chemical experimentationimproperimproper descriptorimproper practiceinappropriateinappropriate attireinappropriate languageindecent attireindecorous

Related words (108)

misplaced nasty naughtynot donenot the thingobsceneoff baseoff coloroff-base off-color offensive offensively orderout of characterout of jointout of keepingout of lineout of placeout of proportionout of season

Show 76 more words

Adjective(12 words)

reprehensible salacious seediestunacceptable behaviorunbecoming uncomely undecorous unethical unpalatable unpresidential unsavoury unseemliest

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

appearancebehavioral qualitydescriptive qualitymoral quality

More specific

9 entries

immoral improper indecent reprehensible undecorous undignified unethicalunseemly dressuntoward

Collocations

6 entries

unseemly behaviorunseemly conductunseemly disclosureunseemly episodeunseemly remarksunseemly sight

Inflections

2 entries

more unseemlymost unseemly

Derivations

1 entries

unseemliness

similar

1 entries

improper

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My grandmother thinks it's unseemly for me to be dating my history professor.

Source: tatoeba (1231846)

The sorceress turned Tom into a bear as punishment for his unseemly behavior.

Source: tatoeba (2987994)

Asking for seconds would be unseemly.

Source: tatoeba (3390267)

It would be unseemly to remarry the day after the divorce becomes final.

Source: tatoeba (7634577)

Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.

Unseemly