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Monosyllabic 有些年纪大的人看不惯这种不男不女的打扮 People Stand Sexless Style Dress 不~不~

Front 有些年纪大的人看不惯这种不男不女的打扮。
Back Some old people can't stand such a sexless style of dress.

不~不~ used with two monosyllabic adjectives or location words with opposite meanings to indicate something is "just right," or sometimes used to indicate a dissatisfying intermediate state. It is also used with antonymic monosyllabic verbs or morphemes to indicate "if not... will not...," or used with two monosyllabic synonyms as an emphatic form of "not."
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