unseemly的意思|unseemly的解释-里氏词典

unseemly [,ʌn'si:mli]

a. 不合适的, 不适宜的, 不得体的

unseemly

[ adj ]
not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
<adj.all>
was buried with indecent hasteindecorous behavior
language unbecoming to a lady
unseemly to use profanity
moved to curb their untoward ribaldry

Unseemly \Un*seem"ly\, a.
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.

An unseemly outbreak of temper. --Hawthorne.

Unseemly \Un*seem"ly\, adv.
In an unseemly manner.

BES companies tend to sell out in an unseemly rush, but the heavy supply provided by the UK's housing market should ensure that all those for whom the BES is an appropriate investment can find an adequate scheme.
Because there usually are no witnesses to the alleged harassment, discrediting the plaintiff can be an unseemly business, the equivalent of questioning the behavior of an alleged victim in a rape case.
It's kind of unseemly at my age to come out in a turkey.
President Bush said today he found nothing unseemly about former President Reagan signing a multi-million contract to write his memoirs.
In the first joyous rush west after the Berlin Wall came down, it seemed unseemly to recall that the last time there was a unified Germany it tore the world apart.
"Back then, it was a little unseemly to even ask," says Paul Portney, a former Carter administration environmental official now at Resources for the Future, a Washington think tank.
U.S. officials have told Rangel that it would be unseemly for the United States to seek cooperation from a government which the administration believes is actively involved in the drug trade.
Denis Hauptly, legislative affairs counsel to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, says the law "eliminates an unseemly practice."
"Things that look unseemly and besmirched and controversial are usually the cheap ones," says Howard Marks, a senior executive at Trust Co. of the West.
Chief Justice Andrew D. Christie told Metviner the dignity of the court was at stake and "violations need to be taken seriously." "We need to send a message to those who act in a very unseemly way in the courtroom.
It unilaterally canceled a joint U.S.-European solar probe a few years ago, and now an unseemly brawl has broken out between the Defense Department and NASA over foreign participation in the space station.
"The two unseemly sides of war are that people die and war is very expensive," Mr. Johnson said.
Only after a long and unseemly struggle behind the scenes was Mr Charles Hernu, the defence minister, compelled to resign.
Ever since the revelations of the Iran arms deal, the Reagan administration has swung the other way in an unseemly political rush to distance itself from Iran.
Lee Grant's boss says the veteran salesman was fired because of his unseemly habit of wearing loud and ugly sport coats.
To some people, this seems unseemly.
Dealings are expected to begin on April 15. COMMENT In spite of some feeling that this management buy-in comes to the market with unseemly haste, analysts considered the offer had been realistically priced by BZW.
It is simply unseemly to dredge up pitiful lives for the sake of public titillation.
The alliances among Japanese companies also give them long-term market advantages that tend to reduce the risks of paying what American and European managers might regard as unseemly high prices for U.S. assets.
"It would be unseemly for a regulatory agency to throw down the gauntlet, even a gauntlet grounded on the Constitution to Congress," it said in an opinion written by Chief Judge Abner Mikva.
Normally elections have been pursued by several months of uncertain and unseemly politicking.
The aristocrats passed their corporate board seats along to their sons and avoided unseemly competition.
The government's unseemly haste in cutting base rates after the release of December's appalling unemployment figures now looks misplaced.
An unseemly number of grown-ups have adopted the show, too, drawn to its sardonic and satirical bent.
They criticize these businesses for their in-and-out, no-hand-holding brand of treatment and for what they sense is an unseemly concern for the bottom line.

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