unseemliness

Example Sentences

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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

They recorded their interactions with officials in footage that would later dominate the headlines with its unseemliness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

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

And so, beholding her impatience and unseemliness, he would realize the folly of an ill temper and thus learn by antithesis to curb his own.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert