| 1. | "Very irregular, very unseemly your master would be far from pleased.. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 2. | They had not gone very far when they met a party of boys, who, upon seeing them, burst into unseemly laughter. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 3. | And thereupon, at those words, the prince had all at once flown into a passion, and began to use unseemly language. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Nannie received us in the hall and, as it would have been unseemly to have shouted at her, my aunt shook hands with her for all. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | Stepan Arkadyevitch always flirted with her in jest, and used to say to her, also in jest, the most unseemly things, knowing that nothing delighted her so much. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | And once more, the inharmonious and unseemly nature can only tend to disproportio. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | Every face bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the women. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices of intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |