unseemly
unseemly 英 [ʌnˈsi:mli] 美 [ʌnˈsimli]
adj. 不适宜的；不得体的 adv. 不得体地；不适宜地
- Something that is inappropriate or unacceptable behavior is unseemly. It's a gentler, somewhat nicer word for "inappropriate" than its synonyms, the "in" words: "indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, inept" — well, you get the idea.
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- adj. 不适宜的；不得体的
- adv. 不得体地；不适宜地
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1. And the best people to be getting blog buzz on stories are the writers and editors themselves, even if they consider such self-promotion unseemly.
从故事中得到博客噪音的正是作家和编辑他们自己，即使他们认为这样的自我促销是不体面的。
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2. These costs are usually hidden well and they often seem out of our hands - challenges for businesses and governments to take on, but too large and unseemly for one person to make a real impact.
这个代价通常被隐藏得很好，看上去远在我们的掌控之外，这只是商业和政府需要应对的挑战，实在过于巨大了，如果一个人想要对此产生实际的影响，往往会被看作不合时宜。
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3. Yet on second thoughts, I see that this man is suffering from the new cheerfulness syndrome that is affecting people who are still in work and, far from being unseemly, it's a jolly good thing.
但转念一想，我意识到这个人得了一种新的快乐综合症，这种病症正在感染现在仍有工作的人，而这非但没有不合时宜，还是件极好的事情。
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