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单词 unseemly
释义
unseemlyun‧seem‧ly /ʌnˈsiːmli/ adjective formal Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • It was considered unseemly for women to smoke.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But a deal with the unionists would be an unseemly affair.
  • He painted, finally, not the beautiful and rich, but the unseemly and chaotic popular classes.
  • If closeness is unseemly when money and politics intertwine, it is not always determinative.
  • It felt unseemly, somehow, to speak out on my own behalf.
  • Like a sudden, unseemly outbreak of boils on the landscape, the little concrete igloos started popping up in the 1970s.
  • Midgely avoids looking at his father's unseemly white chest.
unseemly behaviour is not polite or not suitable for a particular occasion:  Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public.
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