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

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

There’s a point where corporate synergy veers into an area of unseemliness.

From Washington Post

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