unseemly

How To Use unseemly In A Sentence

• People followed these advanced thinkers with unseemly haste. Times, Sunday Times
• How could he simply throw in the towel - not with a bang but a whimper - and in such an unseemly way?
• Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
• The strapping prevented any unseemly bulges, while keeping the smooth line of the tight trousers that were fashionable at the time.
• However, to avoid an unseemly political spat, both Kiely and McEllistrim have been selected.
• Actually, it is rank partisanship of the most unseemly kind.
• Therefore it would be unseemly for Parliament to vote money for a member of the royal family.
• Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
• It would follow, then, that Christ's body was corruptible, which is unseemly. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• In your descriptions of the personality of Moscow, you use the Russian word "naglost," which I believe translates as "an unseemly blend of arrogance and shamelessness. Scenes From Russian Life