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Meanings of uncomely in English
Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
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Examples for "indecent"
Examples for "indecent"
1
Oil giants will be forced to change their indecent behavior, he said.
2
Seven students were charged with indecent exposure after a game last year.
3
Stop stemming! but you don't know the Spanish words for indecent exposure.
4
They were being questioned about indecent images of children on the Internet.
5
Saint Augustine ridiculed one of the Roman gods in grossly indecent language.
1
Amerigo Bonasera had found this solution to the problem unseemly and penny-pinching.
2
SEBI need not agree, and there could be a rather unseemly dash.
3
Livia says we must not grieve in an excessive or unseemly way.
4
Likewise, each unseemly revelation erodes whatever respect the royal family still commands.
5
Later, perhaps, after the object of Thorin's unseemly late-life prickishness had gone.
1
In that time I never witnessed or heard of anything untoward happening.
2
I'm sure Floccus will come and find you if anything untoward happens.
3
Joining him on the strand she said, 'Nothing untoward with the captain.
4
Initially, it was thought something untoward must have occurred on this farm.
5
These untoward events for a moment paralyzed the efforts of the Venetians.
1
They may be lovely in the box and hideously unbecoming when worn.
2
Pride is surely the most unbecoming of all vices in a fisherman.
3
The human was turning an unbecoming shade of purple at this point.
4
The attitude of the Bolsheviki was grossly unbecoming and provocative of disdain.
5
And then he did a thing highly unbecoming in a field officer.
1
At the funeral of Mademoiselle de Conde, a very indecorous incident happened.
2
This method of keeping grounds is comparatively inexpensive, therefore it is indecorous.
3
She knew she was being indecorous, and she cared not a whit.
4
We saw nothing indecorous, heard no vile language, and witnessed no violence.
5
The book is in every way an injurious and indecorous one.
Usage of uncomely in English
1
Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell where the rocks are.
2
On the west are ranges of distant hills, low but not uncomely.
3
When he had gone out, Catherine wagged her uncomely grey head ominously.
4
Do you see an unusual but not uncomely formation of the eyebrows?
5
What doest thou in that beggar's garb, uncomely and desired of none?
6
Seen in the daylight she was young, fresh-skinned, and not uncomely.
7
At thirty-eight the Reformer, we must remember, must have been no uncomely wooer.
8
They were not only uncouth and uncomely, but they were dirty.
9
I vaunt not myself, yet women have thought me not uncomely.
10
The works of Dædalus are described by Pausanias as rude and uncomely in aspect.
11
It was the old picture, save for the uncomely modifications of our modern costume.
12
The soul of the modern mystic is becoming a mere hoarding-place for uncomely theories.
13
For, in all my journeys, I have not met an uncomely face or form.
14
There was nothing there but a lump of uncomely flesh.
15
Before, indeed, I deemed him uncomely, but now he seems like to the gods.
16
The grooms came and soundly flogged me for uncomely speech of my Lady Anne!
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