seemly

In court papers, state prison officials indicated their prospects for buying the drugs started to change as soon as it seemly likely lawmakers would pass the shield law.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023

"Whether it's technically extortion, whether it is some other misconduct, nothing about this is seemly for a former president," she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022

It was all very public, and not very seemly.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021

She adds in the series that she “didn’t feel it was seemly to get into a public fight with him.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021

He was a fine young fellow, seemly and demure as a dove.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

If Bobby Knight had played a little more at Ohio State 25 years ago, college basketball might be a little seemlier today.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being just a poster boy, after all, is so much seemlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

But one of the company said, "Indeed, the daughter of King Such-an-one is seemlier than he."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Courtesy sets on kings a goldener crown That sits upon them seemlier.

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne

He swiftly meditated flight, thinking to return for a seemlier demonstration.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

Of daughters, had he six: Derbriu, Ethne and Ele, Clothru, Mugain and Medb, myself, that was the noblest and seemliest of them.

From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn

He looketh from without the entrance under a little tree and seeth there sitting one of the seemliest men that he had ever seen of his age.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

And when Sir Launcelot was so arrayed like a knight, he was the seemliest man in all the court, and none so well made.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

He already had the seemliest wife in the village.

From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry

Sir Le Beau Disconus rode to his lodging, and bade maid Elene put on her seemliest robes.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten