单词 | unmaidenliness |
释义 | > as lemmasunˈmaidenliness unˈmaidenliness n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > immodesty or indelicacy > specific unmaidenliness1842 1842 Penny Satirist 5 Feb. 2/2 If Prynne wrote a quarto volume on the ‘unloveliness of love locks’, what a monstrous size of a volume must he have written on the ‘unmaidenliness of maid-made beds’! 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. iv. 88 You, father! you have driven me to unmaidenliness. 1980 W. M. Spackman Presence with Secrets (1982) iii. 132 Signatures too of total unmaidenliness—a Pill scotch-taped on, a chastely beribboned little lock of unambiguous curls. < as lemmas |
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