misseeming

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ seeming.

Adjective

misseeming (comparative more misseeming, superlative most misseeming)

(literary, now rare) Unseemly, unbecoming.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Be therefore, O my deare Lords, pacifide, / And this misseeming discord meekely lay aside.

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