Sentence examples for unseemly words from inspiring English sources

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The public entered to watch the magistrates grind through formalities: one charge of malicious injury to a police uniform, three charges of assault, four of offensive behaviour, five of failure to observe a direction, nine of resisting arrest, 10 of unseemly words, 18 of hindering police and 19 of unlawful procession.

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That was deemed unseemly.

Either, logic is not the minister's strong suit and what is on offer is an unseemly fudge of words to placate his audience at the University of Keele.

After the unseemly welter of words, mainly tiresome, tasteless trashtalk, that preceded the protracted build-up to last night's heavyweight happening in Hamburg, comes the welcome restoration of some semblance of nobility to the dark art.

And apart from the aesthetic considerations we keep coming back to the word "unseemly", and I think "sentimental" might be another contender what's the harm?

It was "unseemly to take identical words" and interpret them differently, Justice Ginsburg said.

The real money was in the proxy votes of institutional shareholders: a screen showed they voted 98% and 99% for everything, not a word about unseemly remuneration.

Late Sunday night, a sportswriter carped at me on Twitter for using the word "scab" to describe the replacement refs, because "we [weren't] talking about MINERS" and because he found the implied indignation in the word choice unseemly.

Those of us who know Barry had a good laugh at the notion that he could be accused of "provoking an unseemly and very modern confusion between the Word of God and the temptations of Mammon".

Mindful that they not appear unseemly, the one thing they dare not do is utter two words directly to the candidate: running mate.

As Joe Trento of the National Security News Service, who helped me on the investigation, said, "It would be unseemly if [someone] were arrested by the FBI and word got back that he'd once been on the payroll of the CIA… What we're talking about is blow-back.

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