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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

GS But after he was no longer here, it didn’t seem... seemly.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2019

We don’t need to add distance to make our enthusiasm more seemly or to drench ourselves in irony lest anyone think we actually care about all this rigmarole.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2017

Arthur began to laugh more than was seemly, and his foster-brother, Sir Kay, and his old guardian, Sir Ector, came out from behind the throne, where they had been hiding.

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

Of two such blessings, why forget The cheaper and the seemlier one?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

He already had the seemliest wife in the village.

From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry

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

"Why, if our wives chose to believe this lady, she would embroil the seemliest household in the company."

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by George Saintsbury

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

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