be seemly
Example Sentences
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Would it be seemly to have a moment of silence for the Iraqi corpses?
From Time Magazine Archive
I wanted to tell him that I would miss him, but I didn’t think saying such a thing would be seemly.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Most of them regarded it as a kind of magical rite into which it would not be seemly to inquire.
From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine
"Yas suh," I says, "I kin; but I didn' think 'twould be seemly fur me to start guessin' along 'at line widout you opened up the way fust."
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Why don’t you help Dickey?” whispered Ben from the wings, thinking that it would not be seemly in the ghost of Hamlet’s father to rush on to the stage before his time.
From Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy by James Otis
