Example sentences for: unseemly

How can you use “unseemly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" today carries a completely different unseemly tale about the VP and fund solicitations.

  • Franklin Foer's "The White House and the Hatch Act" adopted the conventional response toward this affair: to find a way to sweep this unseemly activity under a rug.

  • An editorial in the Jerusalem Post compared the impeachment in the United States with Israel's current political turmoil and said that "[I]n both nations, people are getting frustrated with political systems that have become obsessed with themselves, and wish that what they see as unseemly distractions will be quickly over."

  • Gloria Borger (PBS's Washington Week in Review ), Margaret Carlson, and Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ) think it unseemly to wear one's religion on one's sleeve, and Bill Kristol sees baby-boomer selfishness in Bush's transformation of a political question into a personal one.

  • The story: Big ape has special relationship (which USA Today 's Mike Clark calls "vaguely unseemly") with beautiful girl, bad guys want to poach big ape, big ape gets put in zoo/nature preserve, goes on rampage, and saves little kiddies from a burning Ferris wheel.


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