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They rationalized their support for him by saying they didn't believe Trump would actually carry out all those unseemly threats he makes about deporting millions of people or going after his political enemies.

From Salon

The result of Carsley's experimentation was an unseemly shambles, a confused tactical mess that was desperate defensively, with Greece having the ball in England's net five times only to see three ruled out for offside.

From BBC

Some people inside the organization said they at the time found the flashiness unseemly for the head of a homelessness nonprofit.

But what finally derailed the case was the Nixon administration’s unseemly overtures to the judge.

Your book confronts the isolation of grieving and how it’s so often considered unseemly or inappropriate when done publicly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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