| 单词 | vacant-seeming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvacant-seeming vacant-eyed, vacant-looking, vacant-minded, vacant-seeming adjs.; vacant-heartedness, vacant-mindedness. ΚΠ 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. v. 219 We all heard he was engaged to your beautiful vacant-looking cousin. 1836 Poe in Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 339/2 Not a broad, forced, loud vacant-minded joke, but a quiet, pungent, sly, laughter-moving conceit. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 112 If they have formerly figured as beauties, the fickle voice of fashion now proclaims that they are ‘pretty, certainly, but silly, and vacant-looking’. 1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook xviii Her frivolity—her not so much vacant-mindedness as vacant-heartedness. 1883 J. Mackenzie Day-dawn in Dark Places 272 I have been saddened by the vacant-minded pupil. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xiii. 186 It was a large, vacant-seeming, Empire sort of drawing-room. 1936 L. H. Myers Strange Glory ii. ix. 150 A boy of about ten.., ill-nourished and vacant-eyed. 1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 59 From the shores of Morocco..came frightened, dirty, pathetic Jews, illiterate, often crippled with disease and vacant-eyed. < as lemmas |
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