unseemly

Preposition: for

• woman: Felix was ambivalent about her publishing; he felt it was unseemly for a woman.

Modifies a noun

• haste: Already the unseemly haste with which the media picked up the flashlight for Blair has created signs of a backlash among Labor supporters.
• scramble: One sees it in the unseemly scramble to get money from the Department of Homeland Security.
• rush: Do you have a set routine for leaving the room that avoids an unseemly rush?
• row: His desire to ratchet up his income has seen the unseemly row with, and abuse of, Silverstone.
• manner: And with my apologies for jumping the gun in such an unseemly manner.
• behavior: To do so, or to indulge in unseemly behavior within the grounds, is an offense against cemetery byelaws.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Firstly, the rather unseemly mess concerning the means of electing a leader.
• somewhat: There is a somewhat unseemly haste in the way he takes up her refrain to excuse his delayed recognition of his errors.
• almost: But despite the almost unseemly haste with which the U.K. government rushed to embrace the Convention, no new money was made available.
• somehow: To them, it is somehow unseemly to say that the Cold War was a battle the West waged against evil.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: Wooden features were replaced with stone while roofs, now considered unseemly, were hidden behind a stone parapet.