Translation for "ill-contained" to spanish

Ill-contained

• mal contenido
• mal contenida

Translation examples

mal contenido

He forced himself to sit, tried to speak calmly, although his voice still quavered with ill-contained emotion.
Decidió sentarse y se esforzó en hablar pausadamente, sin poder evitar que la emoción mal contenida le hiciera temblar la voz.

I brought them some beers and was greeted with ill-contained enthusiasm. The older one in particular started up again with his vulgarly allusive language, maybe he just wanted to be witty, and that was the only form of wit he knew.
Les llevé unas cervezas, que recibieron con entusiasmo mal contenido, en especial el mayor, con su lenguaje vulgarmente alusivo; puede que solo quisiera ser gracioso y que aquella fuese la única forma de humor de la que era capaz.

It may be that a very genteel upbringing, of the kind that is becoming increasingly rare, along, perhaps, with the almost superstitious respect that the written word can instill into certain timid souls, has prevented readers, although they are more than justified in showing signs of ill-contained impatience, from interrupting this long digression and demanding to be told what death has been up to since the fateful night when she announced her return.
Es posible que sólo una educación esmerada, de esas que ya son raras, a la vez, quizá, que el respeto más o menos supersticioso que en las almas timoratas suele infundir la palabra escrita, haya llevado a los lectores, aunque motivos no les falten para manifestar explícitas señales de mal contenida impaciencia, a no interrumpir lo que tan profusamente venimos relatando y querer que se les diga qué estuvo haciendo la muerte desde la noche fatal en que anunció su regreso.