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unpreˈsentable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
1828Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 204 Another worse evil, the name of which, in his days, was not unpresentable, ‘in prose or rhyme’. 1857J. G. Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore 55 A pair of snowy white trowsers were covered with the sable fluid, and rendered entirely unpresentable. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta xlviii, She still felt so distressed and unpresentable that she resolved not to allow Lord Mountclere to see her.
Hence unpresentaˈbility, -ableness.
1862Rossetti in Fraser's Mag. July 73 For years past it has..candidly admitted its own unpresentableness. 1882‘Sarah Tytler’ Bride's Pass ii, His unpresentability when fresh from some of his functions. 1886Ruskin Præterita l. x. 330 My own shyness and unpresentableness were farther stiffened..by a patriotic and Protestant conceit. |