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

They recorded their interactions with officials in footage that would later dominate the headlines with its unseemliness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

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

She saw—the unseemliness, the monstrous indelicacy of it!—she saw—the nightcap and shoulders of Admiral Buzza craning out of the next-door window!

From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir