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

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

I wanted to tell him that I would miss him, but I didn’t think saying such a thing would be seemly.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Lieutenant Bonaparte, Would it not seemlier be to shut thy heart To these unhealthy splendours?—helmet thee For her thou swar'st-to first, fair Liberty?

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

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

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

But perhaps Saladyne's eye is levelled upon a more seemlier saint.

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey

"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

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

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 Dunn, Joseph