seemliness 的 2 个定义
seem·li·er, seem·li·est.
- fitting or becoming with respect to propriety or good taste; decent; decorous: Your outburst of rage was hardly seemly.
- suitable or appropriate; fitting: a seemly gesture.
- of pleasing appearance; handsome.
- in a seemly manner; fittingly; becomingly.
seemliness 近义词
decency
更多seemliness例句
- Under its outward seemliness a million throats are ready to take up the brazen cry of revolution.
- Even unlucky devils, such as myself, are not without a certain respect for that which is fitting, for seemliness and etiquette.
- Honor, common sense, seemliness, and conscience seem to belong to the individual domain.
- In the Middle Ages very great attention was given to seemliness in the private conduct of individuals.
- Torture, persecution, violent measures, would all have been impossible if there had been a sense of seemliness.