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Перевод: unseemly
[прилагательное] неподобающий; непристойный; неблаговидный
Тезаурус:
- They drew an entourage of unseemly types; successful gamblers in high spirits and unsuccessful ones drowning their sorrows brought discord to the rapport of this suburban bastion of courteous society.
- With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found - vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks - he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club.
- Law firms started to compete more fiercely with each other - through "beauty parades" and even on price - in a way that would have appeared unseemly a decade earlier.
- Mr Lawson, who has never found it easy to win the affection of the party conference, now faces the trickiest political test of his career in attempting to avert unseemly attacks on his competence from the Conservative grassroots.
- Alida went round to the far side of the great bed, the unseemly bed, in which her mother's shrunken body was lost as in a great sea.
- Some pastors were diverting into a pious channel the unseemly activity associated with "wakes", at which strong liquor was consumed.
- The other group were the physicians who felt that this was an unwarranted and unseemly intrusion of government into a relationship that is a very private and personal one, the patient-physician relationship.
- So it has been with other countries of immigration - the immigrants embraced a new nationality with, if the nationalist fictions are to be believed, unseemly eagerness.
- Alida felt that it was quite unseemly, in a woman of Florence Ames' age, to bring a man-friend openly through the place, to flaunt such a curious person.
- On 27 May 1988 the magazine published an account of a social occasion at Mrs Gorman's flat, attributing to her an "unseemly and offensive" remark.
- It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so.
- She hadn't really expected to see him at the funeral, though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion.
- In his amateur days he was an "eviction technician" (a fashionable euphemism for bouncer) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image, and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances.
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