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

And while the line between the bliss of escapism and the unseemliness of denial can be a blurry one, which side this album falls on is not.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2015

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

Mr. Bradley, however, had suffered enough of this unseemliness.

From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)