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  • When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied...
  • He had no sense of incongruity to make the phrase unseemly or ludicrous.
  • Yoj refused to look at anyone but Mill, afraid she would laugh, too, both from horror and in unseemly jubilation at Dodd's defense.
  • I do not recall the unseemly invasion of privacy visited upon
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