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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• It feels unseemly to complain about not getting a raise when your neighbor is unemployed.
  如果你的邻居已经失去工作，你就会觉得不必为自己没加上工资而抱怨。
• 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。
• We will never countenance such unseemly behavior.
  我们决不会支持这种不正当行为。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is something strange and unseemly about this lack of reflection on the end of the Iraq war.
  然而，在伊拉克战争结束之时缺乏反思，却是一件奇怪的事情，也不太应该。
• First we discussed our unseemly mid-life urges: his to do triathlons, mine to buy bright green shoes with six-inch heels.
  首先我们讨论了自己不合时宜的中年欲望：他想做三项全能运动，我想买一双六英寸鞋跟的亮绿色鞋子。