单词 | unneutral |
释义 | unneutraladj. Not neutral; partisan. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [adjective] > not neutral in war unneutral1782 1782 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 18 Feb. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 486 It is in vain to remind her how..very unneutral her Armed Neutrality is. 1806 J. Stephen War in Disguise (ed. 4) 248 Indignant, not at imaginary wrongs, not at the temperate resistance of her own unneutral conduct, but at gross, unprovoked, insulting, multiplied injuries from France. 1883 J. T. Morse Jefferson xvi. 273 Those Gallican predilections which..had given such an unneutral bias to his feelings. 1915 Arms & Man 29 July 351/2 To permit trade in arms with one belligerent and forbid it with another would be unneutral and illegal. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 366 Most of the gains we made by the July measures would have been upset by an unneutral policy. 2007 Salon.com (Nexis) 4 Jan. My perspective on this issue is as biased and unneutral as it gets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1782 |
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