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

The unseemliness of greed at the top is gone.

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2018

The discontent, he said, seems to stem as much from the unseemliness of the legislative process as from the finished product.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2010

The utter incongruity and unseemliness of the whole affair from first to last seems incomprehensible at the present day.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles