unseemliness
Example Sentences
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Ergo, it’s lamentable but not surprising that a certain unseemliness surrounded Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022
The unseemliness of a highway that you find distasteful, but that started as a wagon road through the forest, and for decades has brought people in and out of Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
Even his latest straight job, as a manager of a nearly-deserted mobile phone store, requires a spice of unseemliness to keep him interested.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2018
When he started to worry that this might arouse suspicions of unseemliness, he deposited each woman in a cab home and provided the fare.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2012
"We have got through all that,—you and I have for ourselves;—but there is a sort of unseemliness in your coming down here to see a poor Quaker's daughter."
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
