Sentence examples for if unseemly from inspiring English sources
Sir Christopher's ideas got nowhere.There might be a rational, if unseemly, calculation behind such inertia namely, that voters distrust all the parties roughly equally.
Congressional leaders, he says, use earmarks as bribes to get the lower ranks to support flawed spending proposals.All this makes earmarks an extremely useful if unseemly tool for the wheelers and dealers in Congress, which presumably explains why they have endured despite decades of complaints and denunciations.
Asked if the unseemly departure would change his perception of Ramirez, Damon said: "I wish he would have just walked away happy with it.
But in the United States, to doze, to snooze, to wink or to indulge in a few zzzzzzz's is considered unproductive, if not unseemly.
If that sounds unseemly, just you wait.
YES, there is something unseemly, if not exactly improper, about Michael Ashcroft being treasurer of the Conservative Party.
But some people are grumbling that all the fawning is unseemly if not imbalanced.
She stops short of saying "charisma", as if curbing an unseemly spurt of ego.
"It would be very unseemly if he starts linking the contract to governance," she said on Thursday.
A few years back, there were moves to ease it out of town, as has happened with livestock markets elsewhere, as if they were unseemly.
Though it hailed last month's ruling as a great triumph, Microsoft seems to have recognized that the court's core findings have made its original goals for Windows XP look unseemly, if not illegal.
