Her behaviour at the party last night was unseemly.
Now, the ravages of the credit crunch have Western Banks exiting their investments with unseemly haste.
The vestibule was filled with the unseemly sounds of scuffling and drunken, husky gasping.
The first cautionary lesson from these unseemly goings-on is that America's corporate-governance mess is still, alas, unresolved.
If you are an unseemly eater, you could be damaging your career and not even know it.
More recently, an election this month to the Little Rock school board descended into an unseemly row about race because one candidate was white and the other black.
Capitalism had quite a tough path toward acceptability, I think. Traditionally, making money was viewed as unseemly, and avarice considered a deadly sin.
Besides, if we truly believed in the absolute uniqueness of each individual, there would be none of this unseemly eagerness to reproduce one's own particular genome.
When I grew up, my mother told me it was unseemly for young girls to go about alone at night or travel without an older companion.
Some would express it even more negatively, if possible, and say with unseemly elation: So there is no devil after all!
The lassitude of the players, more inert than inept, made many Iranians assume they had been either bribed or threatened to ensure no repetition of the unseemly 1997 celebrations.
