| 单词 | gentle-sounding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentle-sounding c. With present participles, forming adjectives in which gentle expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in gentle-looking, gentle-seeming, gentle-sounding, etc. ΚΠ 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 81 The swelling surge, that with his fomie head, The gentler looking Land with furie menaced. 1766 G. Colman & D. Garrick Clandestine Marriage iii. 48 This is your gentle-looking, soft-speaking, sweet-smiling, affable Miss Fanny for you! 1850 A. B. Reach Leonard Lindsay II. xi. 334 He raised them, with kind looks and gentle-sounding words. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 30 Mar. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 276 A gentle-looking, clear-eyed, neatly made man. 1904 E. D. Embree Lesser Light iii. 29 From beneath those drooping lids, the gentle-seeming brown eyes watched their surroundings furtively. 2018 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Weekender section) 7 It's hard to imagine this gentle-looking and polite man feeling that way. < as lemmas |
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