unseemly
Example Sentences
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His most “persistent hater,” the pompous moralist Cato the Censor, railed at Scipio’s unseemly pride and alleged corruption.
These predictions—and still more disturbing ones—both confuse and enrage Oedipus, and lead him to accuse Creon of unseemly ambition and betrayal.
Likewise, the president’s tariffs on Brazil over its own Supreme Court ruling against his buddy, former president Jair Bolsonaro, might strike some of them as a bit unseemly.
From Salon
The unseemly fallout between Rodgers and Dermot Desmond spilling into the public domain via Celtic's biggest shareholder's statement was so box office it sucked up most of the oxygen in the wake of Monday's news.
From BBC
The honorable pursuit of “prosecuting high officials who did something wrong” must not be confused with unseemly “retaliation.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
