| 单词 |
unhonestly |
| 释义 |
unˈhonestly, adv. ? Obs.
[un-1 11, 5 b.]
1. In an unbecoming manner; indecorously.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 193 Trowe we not þat Crist dide here dispitously or unhonestly, spittynge in þis mannis face? c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 When þai hafe eten, þai wype þaire hend on þaire clathez vnhonestly. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 278 Item that the chircheyard is vnhon[e]stly kepte.
2. With dishonour; disgracefully; discreditably, dishonourably; dishonestly.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. ix. 1 In the same tyme Antiochus turnyde aȝein vnonestly [L. inhoneste] fro Perse. c1449Pecock Repr. 325 As into this point, that he therbi be iust or uniust,..doing honestli or doing vnhonestli. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. x. 34 Who so ordreth himself vnhonestly in riches, how moch more shal he behaue himself vnhonestly in pouerte? 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Adelphos ii. i, I my selfe am very vnhonestly dealt withall. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. ii. 5 As I would neuer doe any thing vnhonestly, so I would neuer feare the immateriall wind of censure, when it is done. 1648Hexham ii, Oneerbaerlick, Vnhonestly, Dishonestly, or Impudently. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. 388 Most unhonestly slandering old Writings.
3. Indecently, immorally.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xiii. 2 The which for she was a mayde, hard to hym it semede, that eny thing vnhonestly [L. inhoneste] he shulde do with hir. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) iii. x. 56 These it ben that so horrybly stynken,..for they haue liued ful vnhonestly in fowle lustes. 1486Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 12 Yf the same preest so chosen vnhonestly behave hym. 1535Coverdale Prov. xii. 4 She that behaueth herself vnhonestly, is a corrupcion in his bones. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 400 His Proctors wife, with whom..he acquainted himselfe ouer familiarly and vnhonestly. 1609Bible (Douay) 2 Sam. xiii. 2. |
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