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

Accepting her view of the gross unseemliness of his mention of the subject, the young fellow's anger gave way to contrition.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles