a. Fit; suitable; becoming. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
He had a seemly nose. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am a woman, lacking wit
To make a seemly answer to such persons. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
Suddenly a men before him stood,
Not rustic as before, but seemlier clad,
As one in city or court or place bred. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See -hood. ] Comely or decent appearance. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. [ 1913 Webster ]
An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an unseemly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]