单词 | unseemly |
释义 | un·seemly I. a. < very unseemly to talk in this loose fashion before young men — Willa Cather > < an unseemly outbreak of temper — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < one of the unseemliest squabbles … grew out of the bitterness sowed between a strong administrator and his teaching staff — V.L.Parrington > < rescuing its historic monuments from a century and a half of unseemly neglect — Lewis Mumford > b. < a man of unseemly aspect > < country farmhouses … resembling dingy boxes surrounded by unseemly household litter — S.E.Morison & H.S.Commager > c. < at the most unseemly hours — eleven at night, four in the morning — alarm clocks shrieked, taps gushed — Jean Stafford > < we demand to know the reason for this unseemly intrusion — T.B.Costain > < useless and unseemly sorrow for the irrevocable past — W.M.Thackeray > II. |
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