| 单词 | murky past |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmurky past 5. Shady, suspect; morally questionable, sinister. Frequently in murky past. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > immoral or unethical > of doubtful morality murky1779 questionable1788 doubtful1838 dubious1860 1779 H. Cowley Albina iii. 40 The moon hath hid her head, As scorning with her lucid beams to gild This murky business. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad iv. xl. 289 Ruin—spoliatious—murky deeds of night. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxiii. 364 One good deed in a murky life of guilt. 1906 P. G. Wodehouse Love among Chickens (ed. 2) x. 126 I was..thinking about..my wretched novel. I had just framed a more than usually murky scene. 1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 17 359 It..throws new light on the murky past of mental healing in America. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 51 With that very murky background, what could he do except set up as being simple and charming? 1963 J. Cleugh Love locked Out 11 St. Augustine, tormented by the murky past which had preceded his appointment as bishop of Hippo in North Africa. 1990 Screen Internat. 24 Mar. 1/5 Hollywood's murky accounting methods are being scrutinised in a court case which threatens to unearth a hornet's nest of..dubious financial practices. < as lemmas |
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