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

Over that fireplace, a portrait of Washington is cropped at the neck, as if the first president would prefer to look away from the unseemliness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2017

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

All this while, though the past is thus close about you the present is beautiful also, and does not shock you by discord and unseemliness as it will ever do elsewhere.

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida