unseemly
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After unwisely divulging the unseemly conversation to Ruth, Leigh moves to defense: “He’s not an adult. He’s an actor.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It is unseemly, it is childish, and it is thoroughly un-American.
From Slate • Dec. 20, 2025
In between are the travels, the not-so-hidden unseemly jokes of the funniest man who ever lived and the thoughts of a philosopher critical of the modern world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The sometimes unseemly efforts of European leaders to lavish Trump with praise on Monday hinted at their concerns about his sometimes tempestuous nature.
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025
Now she felt that they were unseemly in a grown man.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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