单词 | upstanding |
释义 | upstandingWord family (noun) stand standing (adjective) standing outstanding upstanding (verb) stand (adverb) outstandingly From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishupstandingup‧stand‧ing /ʌpˈstændɪŋ/ adjective formal1 HONESThonest and responsible upstanding young men and women2 standing upright or pointing upwards3 → be upstandingExamples from the Corpusupstanding• an upstanding citizen• A strong breeze caught the upstanding feathered plumes of her hat and blew it off.• At the kitchen door, the cat, neck-fur upstanding like the spines of a hedgehog, wailed to be let out.• So Gilly was an elder of the church, an upstanding member of the community.• She was a fine upstanding middle-aged lady with sharp eyes and a lucid tongue. |
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