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• s  according with custom or propriety
  seemly behavior

• Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution.
• Today, the more collegial Obama presidency makes hyperpresidencies look less seemly.
• By which he meant that Brando's example permitted actors to go beyond characterizations that were merely well made, beautifully spoken and seemly in demeanor; allowed them to play .

• becoming
• comely
• comme il faut
• decent
• decorous

News & Articles

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• Edward Snowden is no hero
  Snowden is not willing to stand, with head held high, upon the courage of his convictions. There is something unseemly about that. It makes his action feel unfinished. And undermined.
  July 11, 2013 - Bristol Herald Courier

Quotes

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• Cheryl Cole in Daily Mail
  Cheryl said: "It just wouldn't be seemly. When we finish, we'll finish on top. And there'll be no comeback."
• Sonny Perdue in Atlanta Journal Constitution
  Those are my primary concerns,Perdue said at a news conference at which he discussed health care records with US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. "I don't think it's seemly for me to check in every day to see how it's...
• Derry Irvine in guardian.co.uk
  Irvine reports that he unsuccessfully pleaded with Blair to keep him on: "I personally am being cast aside. I am being ejected - and all this for no proven benefit arising out of the abolition of the office. This should be done in a seemly, measured...