Crossword clues for behooved
behooved
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behoove \Be*hoove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Behooved; p. pr. & vb. n. Behooving.] [OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. beh?fian to have need of, fr. beh?f. See Behoof.] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
And thus it behooved Christ to suffer.
--Luke xxiv.
46.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: behoove)
Usage examples of "behooved".
Joanna wondered if he had slept when they had taken refuge in the haystack for a few hours' rest or if he thought it behooved him still to keep an eye on Antryg.
If she wanted to handle everything as Roulette, it behooved me to go along.
Given the sinister goings-on since Van Slyke's disappearance, Harry felt it behooved him to speak to the lost boy's parents personally.
Still, she was old-fashioned enough to feel adultery should be done on the sly, in great secrecy, and that it behooved the adulterers to feel ashamed and guilty.
It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare openly that England intended to side either with one party or with the other, or else to remain neutral between them.
We learned while at Quebec that it behooved us not to leave the colony till we had seen the lake and mountains of Memphremagog.
It was hard to reconcile these two things, and to explain to the citizens that it behooved them to worship God--even under penalties for omission.
And right now, she couldn't afford to pay more, so it behooved her to be polite to the landlord.
As an intelligent man, it behooved him to make certain one of those contacts was very conveniently placed within Interpol itself.
But it did prove that there were carnivores around and it behooved him to be careful if he did not want to have jackals and vultures arguing over the leavings!