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

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

Not all the extravagance in the world, not $50 billion, could hide that unseemliness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2014

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

“Oh, pshaw!” ejaculated Noah, deprecating the unseemliness of the quarrel, and putting his arm affectionately about Bonaparte’s shoulder.

From The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by Bangs, John Kendrick