英:[ʌn'wɪʃt]
美:[ʌn'wɪʃt]
英:[ʌn'wɪʃt]
美:[ʌn'wɪʃt]
Adjective
1. not welcome;
"unwelcome publicity"
The first known use of unwish was in 1594
1 As woman is not considered in the Chinese worship of ancestors, her birth is as unwished for as that of the Indian woman.
2 Amine narrated to Philip what had occurred between her and the priest Mathias, and by what means she had rid herself of his unwished for surveillance.
3 And now, full near, the hour unwished for drew When fond, Sephora hoped to see her wed; And, for 'twould else expire, impatient grew To renovate her race from beauteous Egla's bed.
4 The day, the unwished for, the unprayed for, the most unwelcome day, like a challenged foe, had come; and with it new perils, tenfold risk of failure and disaster.
5 It is for this reason that the gift of old age is unwished for, and the prospect of future life without encouragement.
6 I never shall feel happy—never expect it—and it would have been but humanity to have spared me this meeting, unwished for as it now is.
7 The unwished for cavalier was not to be shaken off.
8 Back to the mind of the girl, standing motionless where he had left her, came, unwished and unbidden, the memory of a summer night out yonder beside the flowing river.
9 There are mysteries in the human heart for which we seek in vain to account; associations and sympathies that come often uncalled-for and unwished.
10 Then she thought of Dad, and though still dismal, unwished the wish, and was content to remain a girl.
11 How much did I pity my child, when I read of a discovery at once so unexpected and unwished!
12 Every delicate feeling she possessed revolted at the step: the visit itself was unwished for on her part; but there did exist a reason which had reconciled her to that--the wedding of Clara.
13 The people of Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, etc., take it as a newspaper, and regard the essays and poems as intruders unwished for and unwelcome.
14 The imagination is rebelliously evil, often uncontrollable; and the thought rose up unbidden and unwished for.
15 "Why should I fear you?" said the lady; "or wherefore have you intruded yourself into my dwelling, uninvited, sir, and unwished for?"
16 Wearisome night! full of spectral forms which glide in and out through the darkness, bringing from the past unwished for memories which tell us ever of what we are and what we might have been.
17 Bright and genial were all the last days of June, when I loitered in the lanes before the unwished day of my return to London.
18 Why, now you have unwished five thousand men," said the king laughing, "and that pleases me more than to wish us one more.
19 Yet beyond these transient excitements lie the saddest tragedies-disease and suffering, unwished childbirth, heartbreak and death.
20 If the foetus dies as an unwished for, though permitted, consequence of this haemostasis, the surgeon may lament this result, but he is blameless.