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
FX’s half-hour dramedy “Baskets” stars Galifianakis as the apotheosis of that personality type — and to give it that perfect extra layer of unseemliness, this time Galifianakis’s character is a sad clown.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2016
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
She adopted, however, the Spanish costume, which is black, but not mourning, and no one could accuse her of unseemliness in her attire.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
