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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

Richard Hofstadter rooted mid-20th century conspiracism in the feeling of being dispossessed, a feeling seemly confirmed by the outcome of public decisions upon which the "paranoid" could exert little to no influence.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2021

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

"Your Grace," he said, "it is not seemly that the king should ride into the melee. It would not be a fair contest. Who would dare strike you?"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

And when he joined the brave and stalwart ranks, Like Saul amid his brethren he stood, Braver and seemlier than all his peers, And nobly did he battle for the right.

From Poems by Holley, Marietta

So Al-Anka kissed the Queen's feet and lodged them in her palace; whereupon Tohfah came up to her and fell to kissing her and saying, "Never saw I seemlier than this semblance."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

They were, so to speak, the first-fruits of a seemlier muse.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

"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 Saintsbury, George

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 Malory, Thomas, Sir

He already had the seemliest wife in the village.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

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 Evans, Sebastian

And he began to speak with the Queen, and he thought from her speech, that she was the seemliest, and most noble lady of converse and of cheer that ever was. 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 3 by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir