adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was considered unseemly for women to smoke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a deal with the unionists would be an unseemly affair.
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He painted, finally, not the beautiful and rich, but the unseemly and chaotic popular classes.
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If closeness is unseemly when money and politics intertwine, it is not always determinative.
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It felt unseemly , somehow, to speak out on my own behalf.
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Like a sudden, unseemly outbreak of boils on the landscape, the little concrete igloos started popping up in the 1970s.
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Midgely avoids looking at his father's unseemly white chest.