| 单词 | amiable-seeming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasamiable-seeming C1. With present participles, forming adjectives in which amiable expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in amiable-looking, amiable-seeming, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1815 Statesman 14 Dec.‘do the amiable’ Pretending..a wish to know her with the professed disposition to serve her, by getting her, or giving her, a better employment, as ‘a neat, modest, amiable-looking girl’. 1851 W. Howitt Madam Dorrington of Dene II. iii. 42 Crime, astonishing, motiveless, staring forth from the most lovely and amiable-seeming forms. 1938 Country Life 17 Dec. p. xliv/1 A few days ago at a dinner-party I felt greatly enraged against a pleasant-looking, amiable-seeming, twinkling-eyed man sitting opposite me at table. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Dec. 17/4 This particular group includes a soft-spoken, London-based Saudi journalist..and an amiable-looking Algerian hippie with a Rastafarian-style hairdo. < as lemmas |
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