unseemly

a pure skin, and had only roused in him an unseemly delight in his own cleanness -- _unseemly_, for it was such that he paid no heed to the

Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday expressed deep concern over what he called the unseemly squabble that had broken out over SAA's former CEO Coleman Andrews.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Yoj refused to look at anyone but Mill, afraid she would laugh, too, both from horror and in unseemly jubilation at Dodd's defense.

SKENE: CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Maggie Jochild 2007

He had no sense of incongruity to make the phrase unseemly or ludicrous.

The Puritans Arlo Bates 1884

Or worse, if they engage in unseemly bargains to buy individual Senators’ votes with measures against the public interest ….

Matthew Yglesias » Change . . . If You Want It 2010

I know some of you are drooling, very unseemly, that is the part of the lions! cyndieking

Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee' 2009

If the ordinary course of the law is to be described as unseemly retribution, then all justice asks too severe a sacrifice of our self-love.

David Bromwich: Expedience and the Torture Amnesty 2009

I do not recall the unseemly invasion of privacy visited upon Dr Tshabalala-Msimang or the glee with which her initial illness was greeted by the commercial media and opposition parties being visited upon either of these two men or their families.

ANC Today 2007

I do not recall the unseemly invasion of privacy visited upon

ANC Today 2007

Certainly not Romney, does anyone else recall the unseemly haste he made to Boston to shoulder Jingle Money Swift aside when Christy Mihos showed him a favorable poll?

The Chimes at Midnight 2005