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Unseemly in sentence

32 examples of Unseemly in a sentence

Filmed in Simi Valley, CA, the results are truly unseemly, with redneck clichés and mindless violence making up most of director George Armitage's script.
Even when Ogilvy and Company get fried by the Martians' 'Heat Ray'(?), they flounce and mince in some weird kind of dance, even when they're theoretically DEAD and reduced to skeletons, which persist in unseemly dancing and writhing.
but it wasn't long before I realized that this wasn't being done in a dehumanizing way, as the images unfold I felt that the problem was entirely the audience's: we are conditioned by Hollywood and also movies from just about everywhere actually to feel that to watch people above a certain age behave in a sexual way is something unseemly, something that ought not to be shown.
Dramatic study of a female character unafraid to be unseemly has lost none of its power over the years, with Barbara acting up a storm (portraying a woman who learns to be a first-rate actress herself).
Germany and some of the other northern European countries, demonstrating an unseemly lack of European solidarity, have declared that they should not be asked to pick up the bill for their profligate southern neighbors.
Although this stance cost the Social Democrats many votes, it was hardly enough to offset their main electoral advantage: the unseemly control over key public goods that the party has accumulated during its long incumbency.
Populists are both unseemly and ascendant.
It would be unseemly and perhaps “elitist” to point fingers at fellow Americans and imply that they are promiscuous, fat, gluttonous, lazy, uneducated, or that they are more prone to divorce, drunkeness, and gun-related deaths.
More fundamentally, there is something unseemly about electing presidents without a popular majority.
In both football (soccer) and politics, the country had come to embody an unseemly mixture of arrogance and denial.
Moreover, the PiS is exploiting the fact that a judicial strike would appear unseemly.
Thus, we have the unseemly spectacle of the ECB hesitating to cut interest rates for fear that, having exhausted conventional policy, it would have to turn to unconventional measures like quantitative easing, which would antagonize German public opinion even more.
Then there is the matter of a host country’s unconscionable laws, which can make an international sporting contest appear unseemly.
The unseemly truth is that most physicists are perplexed and embarrassed by this question.
The unseemly race to recruit princelings starts at the world’s leading colleges and universities.
Japan must avoid repeating the unseemly scenario following Saddam Hussein's defeat in the Gulf War of 1991, when it wrote large checks to cover the war's costs, yet had no say in the war's conduct or war aims.
But, though unseemly, this is not necessarily anti-Semitic.
Trump’s Flirtation with ViolenceNEW YORK – Some people might have dismissed Donald Trump’s recent tweet of a video clip showing him punching the face of a man with a CNN logo on his head as yet another example of the US president’s vulgar buffoonery – unseemly, perhaps, but par for the course.
And it has caused an unseemly commotion at a time when the EU must respond to the loss of the United Kingdom and the degradation of the transatlantic alliance.
A high salary earned by a cosmetics or soft-drink manufacturer attracts no attention; one paid to the CEO of a company that thrives on lending to the poor appears unseemly, if not immoral.
The genius of Clinton and Blair was to combine genuine concern for the underprivileged with an unseemly devotion to the fat cats of Wall Street, the City of London, and some murkier places, too.
Recommendations from international financial institutions contributed to this unseemly haste.
Instead, they have been engaged for weeks in an unseemly brawl about the past.
And yet, as the unseemly competition for vaccine doses indicates, that is exactly what many countries have done.
But his major draw is that he’s viewed as the best equipped to defeat Trump, who seems rattled by the prospect of facing a challenger who is far wealthier than he is (and evidently privy to his unseemly New York business practices).
Member states have not only engaged in an unseemly scramble to secure scarce medical supplies, but have also made little tangible progress regarding the EU’s contribution to the economic and financial costs of the crisis.
In its unseemly effort to distract the voters from their failures in office, the party is hoping to turn the upcoming election into a khaki referendum, in which cross-border violence and national security supersede the daily terror of poverty, economic distress, and communal tension.
Creating any EU recovery plan will require unanimous support from the EU’s 27 member countries – and this will involve unseemly late-night squabbles between the self-styled “Frugal Four” northern governments (the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Sweden), which have vehemently opposed funding for Mediterranean EU members which, according to Wopke Hoekstra, the Dutch Finance Minister, have mainly themselves to blame for “failing to reform.”
"Danger is but an unseemly word for a soldier," continued the British commander with a sneer.
His dress was of the meanest materials, and so ragged and unseemly, as to give him the appearance of studied poverty.