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

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

FX’s half-hour dramedy “Baskets” stars Galifianakis as the apotheosis of that personality type — and to give it that perfect extra layer of unseemliness, this time Galifianakis’s character is a sad clown.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

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

Will he not with great unseemliness look about him?

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville