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seemliness

[ UK /sˈiːmlinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sense of propriety and consideration for others
    a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace

How To Use seemliness In A Sentence

  • Hundreds die everyday without the seemliness of a proper investigation since there is never anyone to care.
  • For an institution whose culture has been built on order and seemliness, it is deeply distressing to learn of serious flaws and even criminal activity within its fold.
  • Moderation is subdivided into good discipline, seemliness, modesty, and self-control.
  • In the cab I'm thinking I'll press Ferrazzi on that issue, lead him carefully through my list of questions, get to the bottom of networking's unseemliness.
  • And (the relator continueth) as for Kanmakan, he became unique in loveliness and excelling in perfection no less; none could even him in qualities as in seemliness and the sheen of velour between his eyes was espied, testifying for him while against him it never testified. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The Treatise veers between the insecure pompousness and pompous insecurity of a man who dons bling on dirty fingers and then sets out to create the urtext of social seemliness. Caroline Hagood: Blast From the Past: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living
  • Yet, while on a level with males as to the offer of, and standing in grace (Ga 3: 28), their subjection in point of order, modesty, and seemliness, is to be maintained. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Mr. Justice Collins was the judge and the case was conducted at first with the outward seemliness and propriety which are so peculiarly English. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
  • Livia Russo looks like she was about fourteen when the movie was shot, which lends an air of extreme unseemliness to her frequent nude scenes.
  • So she followed him into the presence of Naomi, whom she saluted after the godliest and goodliest fashion, and, when she looked on her, she was confounded at her exceeding seemliness and said to her, “O my lady, I commend thee to the safeguard of Allah, who made thee and thy lord fellows in beauty and loveliness!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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