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单词 unpresentable
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Definition of unpresentable in English:

unpresentable

adjective ʌnprɪˈzɛntəb(ə)lˌənprəˈzɛn(t)əb(ə)l
  • Not clean, smart, or decent enough to be seen in public.

    拿不出去的;见不得人的

    I'll say you are an unpresentable aunt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the dacha they were told that Stalin had been put on a sofa in the small dining room ‘in an unpresentable state’ and was now asleep.
    • You got it - I apologize to my classmates for the fact that I will soon be arriving to class every day sweaty, parched, exhausted and far too unpresentable to allow you to enjoy your learning environment in any capacity.
    • But Lowell remains a more audacious, more unpresentable maker than even the most sympathetic acolyte can allow.
    • Having unsightly water spots everywhere, like your glass shower doors, walls, fixtures, and mirrors, can leave your bath looking embarrassingly unpresentable all the time.
    • Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
    • Motion is unpresentable as such but leaves a conceptual trace, not unlike Lyotard's description of the postmodern: ‘the postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself.’
    • Is this really about Taiwan's national security or just something unpresentable?
    • The guy himself, all smoky and tallow-smeared and unpresentable, is bad enough; far worse, from the point of view of proliferating chaos, is his stuff.
    • Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
    • And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty’.
    • Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection.
    • What was he going to do with this unpresentable woman?
    • Mother seems to think me unpresentable otherwise.
    • Overall, the ‘strong emotions’ seek out what cannot be put into propositions, or even words: everything that is mysterious and unpresentable.

Definition of unpresentable in US English:

unpresentable

adjectiveˌənprəˈzen(t)əb(ə)lˌənprəˈzɛn(t)əb(ə)l
  • Not clean, well-dressed, or decent enough to be seen in public.

    拿不出去的;见不得人的

    I'll say you are an unpresentable aunt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, on these we bestow greater honour; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty’.
    • Having unsightly water spots everywhere, like your glass shower doors, walls, fixtures, and mirrors, can leave your bath looking embarrassingly unpresentable all the time.
    • But Lowell remains a more audacious, more unpresentable maker than even the most sympathetic acolyte can allow.
    • At the dacha they were told that Stalin had been put on a sofa in the small dining room ‘in an unpresentable state’ and was now asleep.
    • Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
    • Is this really about Taiwan's national security or just something unpresentable?
    • Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
    • Motion is unpresentable as such but leaves a conceptual trace, not unlike Lyotard's description of the postmodern: ‘the postmodern would be that which, in the modern, puts forward the unpresentable in presentation itself.’
    • Overall, the ‘strong emotions’ seek out what cannot be put into propositions, or even words: everything that is mysterious and unpresentable.
    • Mother seems to think me unpresentable otherwise.
    • What was he going to do with this unpresentable woman?
    • Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection.
    • You got it - I apologize to my classmates for the fact that I will soon be arriving to class every day sweaty, parched, exhausted and far too unpresentable to allow you to enjoy your learning environment in any capacity.
    • The guy himself, all smoky and tallow-smeared and unpresentable, is bad enough; far worse, from the point of view of proliferating chaos, is his stuff.
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