unseemly
adjective
not seemly; not in keeping with established standards of taste or proper form; unbecoming or indecorous in appearance, speech, conduct, etc..
unseemliness
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a word derived from
unseemly.
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
The unseemliness of greed at the top is gone.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2018
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
There’s a point where corporate synergy veers into an area of unseemliness.
From Washington Post
The utter incongruity and unseemliness of the whole affair from first to last seems incomprehensible at the present day.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
