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US
/ˈsimɪŋ/
]
[ UK /sˈiːmɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
appearing as such but not necessarily so
the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies
for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent
his seeming honesty
the ostensible truth of their theories
How To Use seeming In A Sentence
- In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
- The broadcaster attacked customs officials and police who seemingly stood on the quayside watching without intervening to help. Times, Sunday Times
- At the risk of seeming to be a shill for David Talbot, let me suggest that non-subscribers reconsider.
- Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- She gave me a cheerful grin and rattled off her past employers, accompanied by a brief biodata, both seemingly satisfying.
- This seemingly innocuous phrase was actually a veiled threat. THE GUARDSMEN
- Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
- Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
- The star in question, KIC 05807616, has a rather interesting description: "a seemingly isolated pulsating hot B subdwarf. Ars Technica