Sentence examples for found unseemly from inspiring English sources

But there was also a level of personal intimacy that many found unseemly.

Updating neo-Classical style and narrative, he made interior scenes in which young girls are viewed with an erotic interest that many critics have found unseemly.

Thomas might further have believed (as he implied by his "high-tech lynching" remark) that he was the victim of a double standard — that actions which white liberals might have found unseemly but irrelevant in the case of a white nominee were being used to disqualify him because he is black and conservative.

Former president Harrison had been deemed a possible contender if he entered the race; when Harrison made it known he would not seek a third nomination, the McKinley organization took control of Indiana with a speed Harrison privately found unseemly.

In previous years the parliament has used the threat of a veto to force commission presidents to reject candidates it finds unseemly or incompetent.

He has given large sums of money to L.A. arts institutions — about a hundred and forty million dollars in the past thirty years — but in return he has expected a degree of fealty that many in the art world find unseemly.

How Should a Person Be? Heti's work contains all of the qualities we're meant to find unseemly: earnestness, overt gratitude, easy poetry.

Still, others who were owed hundreds of millions of dollars found it unseemly that the bank founded by Relativity's one-time co-chairman got the large payout, while others got stiffed.

Jane's family, in the meantime, found it unseemly in its stark depiction of lesbianism.

One man apologized as he proposed this solution — he found it unseemly to be advocating genocide — but most did not.

One man apologized as he proposed this solution he found it unseemly to be advocating genocide but most did not.