unseemly

英 [ʌnˈsiːmli]

美 [ʌnˈsiːmli]

adj.  不礼貌的; 不得体的; 不相宜的

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BNC.21613 / COCA.20173

牛津词典

adj.

• 不礼貌的；不得体的；不相宜的
  not polite or suitable for a particular situation

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不合适的；不得体的
  If you say that some-one's behaviour isunseemly, you disapprove of it because it is not polite or not suitable for a particular situation or occasion.
  1. It would be unseemly for judges to receive pay increases when others are having to tighten their belts.
     在其他人正不得不勒紧裤腰带的时候，给法官提高薪水是不合适的。
  2. ...unseemly drinking, brawling and gambling.
     遭非议的酗酒、争吵和赌博

英英释义

adj

• not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
  1. was buried with indecent haste
  2. indecorous behavior
  3. language unbecoming to a lady
  4. unseemly to use profanity
  5. moved to curb their untoward ribaldry
  Synonym:indecentindecorousunbecominguncomelyuntoward

双语例句

• This has threatened domestic manufacturers and caused an unseemly protectionist trade spat with Mexico, so setting back regional integration.
  这危及国内制造商并引发了与墨西哥不甚体面的贸易保护主义争端，从而阻碍了地区一体化。
• Many shun lavish restaurants, because to eat in such places would be unseemly while other people are suffering in evacuation centres.
  许多人避免去豪华餐厅，因为当别人在疏散中心受苦时，在这样的地方享用美食不合时宜。
• How unseemly are these weak and slender feet!
  这几只无力而细长的脚是多么不相称！
• We will never countenance such unseemly behavior.
  我们决不会支持这种不正当行为。
• And yet, whenever I have a new book about to come out, I have to shake the unpleasant sensation that there is something unseemly about my own clamor for attention.
  然而每当我有新书要出版时，就得抖去心中的别扭与不安，因为总觉得这么喧嚷着寻求关注不太得体。
• It would be unseemly for judges to receive pay increases when others are having to tighten their belts.
  在其他人正不得不勒紧裤腰带的时候，给法官提高薪水是不合适的。
• Jean: A great painter draws his daughter with nothing on her. Isn't it unseemly?
  一个伟大的画家画自己女儿的裸体？有点不合时宜吧。
• His social position allows him of no unseemly behaviour in public.
  他的社会地位不容许他在公共场合有行为不妥之处。
• The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate.
  年轻的牧师经过数小时独处之后，意识到自己神经的失调促使他出现了不自觉的大发脾气，其实，从医生的言谈话语之中丝毫找不出为自己辩解或掩饰的借口。
• Yet despite this unseemly outpouring, the biggest problem of all-mental health-remains tight shut.
  不过，尽管有上述种种不得体的言谈，但对于最重要的问题心理健康人们仍守口如瓶。