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

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

“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