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

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

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

Will he not with great unseemliness look about him?

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville