seemliness

Example Sentences

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Whatever my misgivings about the 680 SL’s seemliness, I soon met a lady who convinced me I was wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Lynne Sagalyn, an emeritus professor at Columbia Business School who has written on redevelopment, dismissed questions of seemliness.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2019

But with modern notions of seemliness, these pieces were discreetly removed from exhibition catalogues.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2016

“There is such a thing as seemliness, decorum, respect for high office,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • May 22, 2015

Oh, I knew it well, who had believed in grieving's seemliness; I knew it as well as she—Clytie—knew it.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner