What's the difference between unbehovely and unseemly?
Unbehovely
Definition:
(a.) Not behooving or becoming; unseemly.
Example Sentences:
Unseemly
Definition:
(a.) Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.
(adv.) In an unseemly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liverpool have taken a proactive stance on the latest unseemly episode to involve Suárez, in contrast to the fall-out to last season's controversy with Patrice Evra when he received an eight-match suspension and £40,000 fine for using racially abusive language against the Manchester United defender.
(2) Critics contend that Obama's proposals risk setting off an unseemly flood of political grasping for a share in the money.
(3) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(4) But Fey and Poehler would never condone this kind of unseemly contest between them, with people (ie, me) deciding which one they prefer, so I'll stop this nonsense now.
(5) It would be unseemly and ultimately impossible to decide the degree of sincerity in individual cases, the judge suggested.
(6) Meanwhile, there is the unseemly scrabble, documented by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, for the very wealthiest to hold on to those increasingly scarce stable professions that guarantee a large income and access to social goods at the very top of society ( theguardian.com , 26 July).
(7) There were those women who said: 'This is unseemly, go back and stay in your place, that's safest.
(8) Jim Allister, the leader of the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice, called on the assembly's commission "to hold to account those who sponsored an event which permitted such unseemly behaviour".
(9) Boaz Myhill then had to make an excellent one-handed save to tip over a close-range diving header from Billy Jones after a corner by Gómez provoked an unseemly scramble in the penalty area.
(10) Blair is keen to become president, but he does not want to find himself caught up in an unseemly battle between EU member states.
(11) May 7, 2017 His chief of staff, Reince Priebus, signaled that a more dignified pace of debate might be tolerated in the Senate, in contrast with the unseemly haste of the House.
(12) By three o’clock on Friday morning they were all at one another’s throats in an unseemly quarrel over who should take part in accommodating a mere 40,000 refugees from Italy and Greece over two years, and on what terms.
(13) The unseemly row over Mourinho’s treatment of Carneiro, and the club’s backing for his stance, has cast an ongoing pall over a season that has opened with the worst title defence in Premier League history.
(14) The state-run China Daily newspaper wrote that "the recalcitrant attempts by Japanese politicians, including Abe, to rewrite history and their country's unseemly record in the second world war are reminders that Japan doesn't deserve being treated as a normal country".
(15) The public entered to watch the magistrates grind through formalities: one charge of malicious injury to a police uniform, three charges of assault, four of offensive behaviour, five of failure to observe a direction, nine of resisting arrest, 10 of unseemly words, 18 of hindering police and 19 of unlawful procession.
(16) It is unseemly and squalid, after unanswered Greek requests for the marbles’ return, for the statue’s first move outside Britain to be to a country we ourselves have placed under sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine.
(17) The former lovers then became engaged in an unseemly Twitter spat, which was gleefully leaped upon by the South African media.
(18) Predecessor Lord Patten's testy relations with former DG Mark Thompson resulted in unseemly public bickering.
(19) Art fairs may be unseemly for many reasons: dealers say they’re almost entirely dependent on them for new business, and artists grumble they’re asked to make pieces to suit the fair schedule.
(20) And then – nine days ago – there came the revelation that the UK government had secretly cooked up "emergency" legislation which was rushed through both houses with unseemly haste and minimal discussion.