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UNCOMELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncomely mean?
• UNCOMELY (adjective)
The adjective UNCOMELY has 1 sense:
1. not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
Familiarity information: UNCOMELY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
Synonyms:
indecent; indecorous; unbecoming; uncomely; unseemly; untoward
Context example:
moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
Similar:
improper (not suitable or right or appropriate)
Context examples
But, having reached this point of conjecture, Mrs. Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face, recurred so distinctly to my mind's eye, that I thought, No; impossible! my supposition cannot be correct.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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