Its practicality has to win out over its unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Having heard the news, he apologized for this unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Much of the unseemliness witnessed recently would then be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Sunil Sharan: Enemy in Need can be Friend Indeed] Reference
He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
There is an extra unseemliness in light of the prorogation of Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 12 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gambler] Reference
Other artists as well as poets should be warned against meanness or unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
The unseemliness of the thing was on the minds of all these dozen to twenty gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
They do seem to hold him responsible for some of the unseemliness of the administration. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Democratic National Convention Set to Begin in L.A. - August 13, 2000] Reference
Salvalindis her mother scolded her about unseemliness - did she care naught for her good name?. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
I should withdraw in shame at this point, but I must confess this unseemliness for the larger effect. From Wordnik.com. [mjh's blog — 2007 — October] Reference
For all the unseemliness, the Patriots would appear to be talented enough to win without any hidden weapons. From Wordnik.com. [NFL Spy Games] Reference
No unseemliness attached itself to me, no hint of cross-dresser bars or ads in the back of louche magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
That stone ... is the very model of patriotic unseemliness among such stories, but how could I interrupt him?. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
In the old romances it must be admitted there is much brawling and heavy drinking, as well as unseemliness of conduct. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
"Place" printed large over the entrance, and a painted screen blocking the doorway with its suggestions of unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Look, I realize “ambassador to Belgium” is a patronage gig anyway, but this still seems petty to the point of unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [If You Shoot at a Donkey, You’d Better Kill It] Reference
Today to conceal such unseemliness, the preference is to use anodyne terms like private security firms and private contractors. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: Washington Rules and PMC] Reference
Though it was secret, the initiates could say there was no more unseemliness, nor danger beyond what comes of bringing one's mortal soul before the Immortals. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
The unseemliness of thus discussing, in open Court, how far the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Why this din, this blocking of the roadways and general unseemliness?. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
Charles upon the unseemliness of the course upon which his Majesty was bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
No doubt the applause of his auditors urged him on to occasional unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
The unseemliness was in the mode of discussion, not in the absurdity of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
Eck led the debate along by easy stages and endeavored to force Luther into anger and unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
These cases come under the head of unseemliness in so far as they show a lack of sense of where to stop. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
It is the penalty of all original thinking that it inspires fools to unseemliness as well as wise men to action. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
If you get to this point, you really need to understand the unseemliness of it all, the politics and the process. From Wordnik.com. [Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space] Reference
The utter incongruity and unseemliness of the whole affair from first to last seems incomprehensible at the present day. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
The unseemliness of your conduct is not inexcusable; love lay at the source of it; let me think so, and justify you to myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference
Somehow, in declaring to Grace and to herself the unseemliness of her infatuation, she had grown a convert to its irresistibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
This strife is urged on by kind neighbors who take sides, and by the "setters" at the store, who fire the litigants on to unseemliness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
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