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
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
I should add that a rare and pretty tenderness constantly displayed on her part toward him robbed it of any semblance of unseemliness.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
