unseemliness

Example Sentences

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Ergo, it’s lamentable but not surprising that a certain unseemliness surrounded Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022

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

The discontent, he said, seems to stem as much from the unseemliness of the legislative process as from the finished product.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2010

And so, beholding her impatience and unseemliness, he would realize the folly of an ill temper and thus learn by antithesis to curb his own.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert