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  • n  a lack of consideration for others

  • Though little discussed because of its unseemliness, cost is also a factor in life-death decisions.
  • The unseemliness of the airport discovery was not mitigated by Antonini Wilson's immediate flight from Argentina, apparently for Key Biscayne, Florida, where he maintains an .
  • The new Senate Select Committee probing Iranscam is determined to avoid such unseemliness.
News & Articles

  • What's Really Behind the Boxer-Lautenberg Feud
    Forget about the unseemliness of questioning a dead man's ability to sign off on a piece of legislation. The real issue at hand in the dustup between Sen. Barbara Boxer and supporters of the late Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg's chemical safety bill is Senate protocol.
    June 21, 2013 - CQ Politics
  • Original Biogenesis source: “the people running Major League Baseball are the biggest scumbags on Earth”
    This reads like a crime thriller. It’s the story of Porter Fischer, the Biogenesis employee who took Tony Bosch’s notes and records, turned them over to the Miami New Times and unleashed the biggest PEDs scandal since BALCO. He has allowed the Miami Times to tell his story. All kinds of unseemliness here. A large…
    June 18, 2013 - NBC Sports: HardballTalk
Quotes

  • Eliot Spitzer in New York Times
    There is certainly a sense right now that there is an aura of unseemliness about too much of what goes on in Albany,Mr. Spitzer said at a news conference in Manhattan. "And one of the first and essential mandates that I believe this...
  • Frank Wolf in San Diego Union Tribune
    The unseemliness of the entire process is contemptible,Republican US Rep. Frank Wolf wrote in letters to President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Interior's inspector general and the GAO's comptroller...
  • John Cornyn in Politico
    That's one of the things that sank the health care bill,said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). "It wasn't just the policy; it was the unseemliness of the various deals."

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