| 单词 | unpleasantly-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunpleasantly-looking In adjectival compounds with present participles, as unpleasantly-looking, unpleasantly-smiling, unpleasantly-tasting, etc. Cf. more common equivalents at unpleasant adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1804 J. Wolcot Great Cry & Little Wool To Pitt Machinery which has contracted a most unpleasantly-looking rust. 1863 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 32 246 A greenish and not unpleasantly tasting tincture is obtained. 1886 H. E. Roscoe & C. Schorlemmer Treat. Chem. III. iii. 131 It is an unpleasantly smelling liquid, boiling at 204°. 1919 A. A. Hopkins Home Made Beverages xix. 147 Very powerful presses are employed, but these possess the objection of pressing the fixed oil from the pips and an unpleasantly tasting juice from the stalks. 2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 23 Feb. 49 Growling like a doberman, the unpleasantly smiling officer started quizzing me about my recent activities. < as lemmas |
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