UNSEEMLY in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for UNSEEMLY, such as:

1. Everyone was shocked by his unseemly conduct.
2. Every face bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the women.
3. One shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets or enter public buildings in unseemly apparel.
4. And thereupon, at those words, the prince had all at once flown into a passion, and began to use unseemly language.
5. When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNSEEMLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unseemly
 a.  grossly improper; indecent; in poor taste
Classic Sentence:
1  Naturally this unseemly contretemps had greatly upset our hero; for, however foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
3  I used to wriggle along in a most unseemly fashion, like an eel, continually moving aside to make way for generals, for officers of the guards and the hussars, or for ladies.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
4  Every face bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5  A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
6  The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices of intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
7  And thereupon, at those words, the prince had all at once flown into a passion, and began to use unseemly language.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 15
8  Levin felt that it was unpardonable to eat, to sleep, to talk even now, and it seemed to him that every movement he made was unseemly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 19
9  Stepan Arkadyevitch always flirted with her in jest, and used to say to her, also in jest, the most unseemly things, knowing that nothing delighted her so much.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
10  began Amy, gesticulating with unseemly energy, but she got no further, for Jo quenched her by slamming down the window.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIX
11  When he saw Eumaeus and Ulysses he reviled them with outrageous and unseemly language, which made Ulysses very angry.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
12  I need hardly remind you that during the days of the retreat all boys are expected to preserve a quiet and pious demeanour and to shun all loud unseemly pleasure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Nannie received us in the hall; and, as it would have been unseemly to have shouted at her, my aunt shook hands with her for all.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
Example Sentence:
1  One shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets or enter public buildings in unseemly apparel.
2  Everyone was shocked by his unseemly conduct.