unsitting

Adjective

unsitting (comparative more unsitting, superlative most unsitting)

1. (obsolete) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
   • unsitting demeanora. 1535, Sir Thomas More, History of King Richard III
   • but with Tirone and Odoynall as they are there is little to fear, and the writer has not greatly busied himself, except by ltters, to agree them, lest, being in amity as in times past, the French king might persuide them to "do somethings unsitting."1920, John Sherren Brewer, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, page 115
2. Not in a seated position.
   • Alternatively, with feet beyond the bar, relaxed 'unsitting' muscle and sinew complexes savor the unaccustomed energy flow which accompanies my intentional consciousness, moving to precisely the points needing and receiving energy healing.2007, Llan Starkweather, Pranic Self-Healing - Intention Not in Tension, page 47
   • Her belly feathers were all ruffled, unlike the straight black waiscoat stripe of her unsitting mate.2021, Mike Tomkies, A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness