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

• 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。
• 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。
• We will never countenance such unseemly behavior.
  我们决不会支持这种不正当行为。
• Beethoven's unseemly, sometimes even rude, appearance and manner impaired his contemporaries'and acceptance of his music and himself.
  贝多芬的不体面的、有时甚至是粗暴的外表和行为极大地削弱了他的同代人对他本人以及他的作品赞同。
• Yet on second thoughts, I see that this man is suffering from the new cheerfulness syndrome that is affecting people who are still in work and, far from being unseemly, it's a jolly good thing.
  但转念一想，我意识到这个人得了一种新的快乐综合症，这种病症正在感染现在仍有工作的人，而这非但没有不合时宜，还是件极好的事情。
• You find various kinds of disreputable and maybe unseemly things going on there.
  你可以发现多种肮脏，不得体的事物都在港口发生。
• It was unseemly to yield to such pressure.
  要是屈服于这种压力，那是不体面的。
• May Almighty Allah endear faith and good conduct to our hearts, and may He make us abhor and shun all unseemly and abominable actions and behavior.
  祈求全能的安拉喜悦我们的信仰，很好的引领我们的内心，祈求安拉使我们憎恶并避免一切可憎的、不得体的行为举止。阿敏！
• Instead it often seems lost in unseemly rearguard actions to preserve a fading status.
  相反，欧洲似乎常常沉迷于用不得体的后卫行动，来维护其日益下滑的地位。
• The bulk of such unseemly pay-offs usually comes from deferred payments from previous years.
  如此有欠妥当的薪酬安排，在很大程度上通常源于前些年的延期薪酬。