unseemliness

Lady Falkender responded: “There has been too much suffering of one kind or another for ‘seemliness’ or ‘unseemliness’ to enter into it any more.”

But to my eyes, it’s burdened by an “unseemliness of trying too hard,” to borrow a phrase from the essayist Chuck Klosterman in his new book “The Nineties.”

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

Manfred’s decision meant the league avoided the unseemliness of losing a season to economic squabbling amid a pandemic, but the unilateral resolution reflected much deeper problems for the sport.

As a result, they embrace the rhetoric of bipartisanship to avoid the unseemliness of politics.