Unbecoming
[ʌnbɪ'kʌmɪŋ] or [,ʌnbɪ'kʌmɪŋ]
Definition
(a.) Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indecorous, unsuitable, improper, indecent, unseemly.
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Definition
adj. not becoming: unsuited to the wearer the place &c.: not befitting indecorous improper.—adv. Unbecom′ingly.—n. Unbecom′ingness.
n. the transition from existence to non-existence.
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Examples
- Nothing unbecoming tinged the pride; it was a natural and worthy one; but he observed it as a curiosity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There _is_ something a little stately in him, to be sure, replied her aunt, but it is confined to his air, and is not unbecoming. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the next place, drunkenness and softness and indolence are utterly unbecoming the character of our guardians. Plato. The Republic.
- It is very unbecoming, and I can assure you that you have very little to smile at. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You are the most unbecoming companion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And Jack--don't you ever dare, while you live, appear in public on those decks in fair weather, in a costume unbecoming your mother's drawing-room! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They put on airs unbecoming to such savages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tut, tut, Mr. Philander, remonstrated the professor, this unseemly haste is most unbecoming to men of letters. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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