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

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

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

She rehearsed to him Cartmell's charges as to his conduct; its idleness, its unseemliness, the disrepute it brought on her and on the Institute.

From The Great Miss Driver by Hope, Anthony