Sentence examples for unseemly interest from inspiring English sources
Given their reputation for prudery, the Victorians displayed almost unseemly interest in the nude.
Florence was simply a troublesome daughter who took an unseemly interest in hospitals and refused to marry.
Newbanks laughingly (perhaps a little nervously) said that Yuja had alerted him to my unseemly interest in money.
The young man takes an unseemly interest in another house in the neighborhood, the place where Bilal Abdulla and Kaleef Ahmed assembled the bombs used in the botched attack on the Glasgow airport.
"A nerd, a geek, an apple-polishing dirt-wonk with an unseemly interest in filth and how to make it go away," Soper confronted Mallon in the kitchen of her new employers on Park Avenue, and demanded a feces sample.
Imposing Bunyan on small children can scarcely be forgiven, yet that was far from the worst of it: worried about Thornton's "peculiar gait and certain effeminate ways," Amos badgered the youngster incessantly over (for one) his unseemly interest in the theater, and forbade him to take the part of Lady Bracknell in an all-male prep school production of "The Importance of Being Earnest".
The regime censors soccer broadcasts, even inserting stock crowd footage to prevent unseemly images, but interest is unabated.
Some think it unseemly to keep interest rates at 0.5% when inflation is at such relatively heady levels, and believe there is a case for one or two "symbolic" quarter-point rate increases to show the bank is serious about curbing it.
The couple has been married since 1991, and when Strauss-Kahn became France's Finance Minister, in 1997, Sinclair sacrificed her job in television to support her husband's career in politics (and also to avoid any unseemly potential conflicts of interest).
For the prosperous – according to the UK tax code, anyone who makes more than about £42k per year – voting in accordance with self-interest is unseemly, ungenerous, greedy, and mean.
Behind the legitimation of both wars, however, lies a broad ideological investment in the idea of "just wars" -- chiefly, in practice, wars fought by the commercial democracies in the name of democracy, to advance their own interests without an unseemly overbalance of conspicuous selfishness.
