Sentence examples for not unseemly from inspiring English sources

It's not unseemly for a girl to imagine herself as a chemist, a primeminister, or possibly both.

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.

Greenberg, in his vivid account of spin as employed by twentieth-century American Presidents, offers F.D.R.'s talks as an example of a paternalistic but not unseemly mode of persuasion.

Thus, it was not unseemly that Udasis took custody of some gurdwaras (Sikh places of worship) during the period of Sikh persecution by the Mughal dynasty in the 18th century or that, as part of his liberal policy toward religious establishments, Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780 1839) gave revenue-free land grants to the Udasi centres.

"I think that a pay raise to $150,000 from $78,000 is not unseemly given the fact that there has been no raise in 15 years," said Bruce D. Rubenstein, chairman of the Commission on Compensation of Elected State Officials and Judges.

It seems not unseemly to suppose that Eliot's imagination (and is this not a theology?) is alive with points of intersection and of descent".

I had grown up in Minnesota, so it wasn't unseemly to me.

The argument over the commission presidency was not only unseemly.

A few poems a year by Tovah would not be unseemly.

But it is not only unseemly for wealthy Europeans to be looking for alms from China, it is bad policy.

Besides plenty of titillation, these included claims that the prime minister had acted in ways that were not just unseemly but illicit.