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

FX’s half-hour dramedy “Baskets” stars Galifianakis as the apotheosis of that personality type — and to give it that perfect extra layer of unseemliness, this time Galifianakis’s character is a sad clown.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

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