unpresentable如何读

英:['ʌnprɪ'zentəbl]

美:['ʌnprɪ'zentəbəl]

unpresentable是什么意思

  • adj.拿不出去的
  • 不登大雅之堂的; 见不得人的; 不像样的.

unpresentable英英释义

  • adj.creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression

unpresentable词源中文解释

1828年,来自 un-(1)“不”+ presentable(adj.)。

unpresentable词源英文解释

The first known use of unpresentable was in 1818

unpresentable 例句

1 In response, Sanchez said Vox was using Tamames, former Communist and an anti-dictatorship activist, as "a decoy for its intolerable and unpresentable project".

2 Much of the flavor is lost by turning from one pot into another, and the shapes are now sufficiently pretty to make the block tin ones not at all unpresentable at table.

3 Captain Paul was equally unpresentable in fastidious parlors, but whatever our apparel it did not diminish the keenness of our appetites.

4 Save that he was hatless, and that his trousers clung, he was not utterly unpresentable.

5 So dreadfully boring for a clever man to be hampered with a silly wife—and one with such unpresentable relations, too.

6 They splashed about with the water in the pond, made themselves unpresentable with mud and dirt and dared to pluck the Victoria Regias, which was strictly forbidden.

7 “I’m sorry you are such an unpresentable bridegroom,” said the Trader, when they were about to separate.

8 When the process is only partly completed, the bird has a smutty, unpresentable appearance.

9 “It cannot totally disavow Qaddafi but it can’t sustain him because he’s become unpresentable.”

10 Her hair was rumpled, her collar awry, and her whole appearance untidy and unpresentable.

11 The reverse process of the production of motion by consciousness is equally unpresentable to the mind.

12 But,' he adds, 'the production of consciousness by molecular motion is quite as unpresentable to the mental vision as the production of molecular motion by consciousness.

13 Mother and son—those unpresentable features of a former occasion—now appeared as immaculate cook and page at the top of the area steps and on the lighted threshold respectively.

14 I went below, secured a seat for breakfast, and made myself less unpresentable.

15 He turned round as the unpresentable pair made off.

16 Pauline toiled bravely over the endless array of pinafores which the youthful Hardings managed to make unpresentable in a week.

17 Consequently the cloth gave way, and there was poor Frank, reduced to rags and tatters, and utterly unpresentable in any decent society.

18 Near the state-house stood the whipping-post in the corner, humble as a hitching-post, and the brick jail hid out of the way there also, like an unpresentable servant ever cringing near his master's company.

19 She was secretly indignant with Anne's view of Walter as unpresentable in the circles of the spiritual élite.

20 In the side of the studio was a very small window from which the girls, when unpresentable, would parley with early tradesmen.

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