释义 |
unseemlyun‧seem‧ly /ʌnˈsiːmli/ adjective formal  - It was considered unseemly for women to smoke.
- 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. |