seemly

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Middle English semely.

[edit] Adjective

seemly (comparative seemlier, superlative seemliest)

  1. (of behavior) Appropriate.
    His behavior was perfectly seemly, as befits a gentleman.

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appropriate

[edit] Adverb

seemly (comparative more seemly, superlative most seemly)

  1. Appropriately, fittingly.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
      The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
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