ungentle如何读

un·​gen·​tleˌən-ˈjen-tᵊl

ungentle是什么意思

  • a.欠温和的
  • a.不高贵的

ungentle英英释义

adjective

not gentle : lacking in softness, delicacy, etc. : harsh, rough … with the two gentlemen pursuing their ungentle quarrel in magazines, television studios, and courtrooms …—Hendrik Hertzberg

an ungentle touch

ungentle词源英文解释

The first known use of ungentle was in 1509

ungentle 例句

1 But Krespel, lost in the world of his harmonies, went on fiddling, so that the walls reechoed; and it so chanced that he touched the Signora, a trifle ungently, with his bow-arm.

2 "I know you to be the most ungentle knight in Arthur's court."

3 The Vladika talked in a gentle manner of the most ungentle subject.

4 Notes From an Apocalypse is a gentle argument for coming to terms with the precarity of life, published in a moment where people are facing its fragility in an immediate and ungentle context.

5 He gave a curt order to the men: the prisoners were lifted from the ground where they had been laid, and urged towards the village with ungentle proddings from their captors' spears.

6 “My dear, dear child—” She put away the kindly hands, not ungently, 163 but as if she could not quite bear them—as if she was too sore for any human touch.

7 To understand that difference, rent Eliza Hittman's ungentle and gray indie drama "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," which depicts how much more grueling a much-shorter interstate journey can be for women of very little means.

8 Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from those trifles springs, Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, A small unkindness is a great offence.

9 The visitors' locker room at Spartan Stadium was lathered up and crackling, stoked by the stomping of a top-10 team, when Brian Kelly ungently jerked his team's attention forward.

10 a demanding and ungentle land that was not for the fainthearted

11 The ungentle thought did not for long control me.

12 Much pleased in his turn, Captain Afleck leaned over and twitched Terry's ear in a not ungentle fashion.

13 A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly I shall ever walk the worse for his rudeness.

14 But going back to trying to be gentle in ungentle times.

15 Many Republicans seem to have caught the vapors at being subjected to such an ungentle expression.

16 Some memory of the ungentle cobbler was aroused by the word "charge," and the boy shrank back nervously.

17 "You had better go to your room," he said, coldly but not ungently.

18 When he trod on the short brown moss, it shrieked and groaned at the ungentle pressure, and he saw how it wrung its little hairy hands and shake its green or yellow heads.

19 Shakespeare was “ungentle,” as in boorish, but also not of the gentlemanly class, despite his eagerness to rise in Elizabethan society.

20 "Don't fret yoreself none, Araminty," said the man, reassuring her with a brusque but not ungentle hand on her trembling arm.

ungentle 同义词

1 出身低微的

low-born

4 不温和的

unequable

8 不优雅的

graceless uncourtly

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