The word, despite the color of her dress, couldn't have seemed more inappropriate.

The Japanese Ambassador looked uncomfortable, as though either he didn't know how to begin or that what he had planned to say now seemed inappropriate and more difficult than he had anticipated.

Fafhrd's face broke into a grin that would have seemed most inappropriate to one knowing he feared an apparition of Death, but not knowing his experiences of the last few days.

Seaside wear seemed inappropriate, yet they could not see that they had reason to mourn the passing of Sir Thomas Throgmorton.

It would have seemed crassly inappropriate.

In addition, after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the project, which was to have its premiere in January 2002, seemed inappropriate, and was scrapped.

With my identity revealed there it seemed inappropriate to Duke Bertran that he be giving Galbert de Garsenc's son commands as if to any other merceðnary.

Ms. Loudon, like Mr. Sahl, exudes a self-importance that exceeds her celebrity to the point of seeming inappropriate.

Even then, the dark cloth had seemed inappropriate to the mood of Rome.

They seemed inappropriate and unworthy and mostly had to do with how it would affect his projects in the company.