Crossword clues for unbecoming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbecoming \Un`be*com"ing\, a. [Pref. un- not + becoming.] Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.
My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster] -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. --
Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not flattering, attractive or appropriate. 2 Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
WordNet
adj. considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person; "an unbecoming style"
not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]
Usage examples of "unbecoming".
Objection 1: It would seem that it was unbecoming that the Magi should come to adore Christ and pay homage to Him.
If it was unbecoming of Ginger to have recalled the time, it would be caddish of him to repudiate the memory.
Good humour had vanquished unbecoming rage, and the gentleness born of happiness made her features breathe forth love.
Tall, of gracious and stately carriage, the curious quietness of the face of the Comtesse would have been almost an unbecoming gravity were it not that the eyes, clear, dark, and strong, lightened it.
While she was yet a small child, she craved such knowledge as is to be found in books, pestering the royal scribes and sages with questions unbecoming to royal females.
The disciple of Loyola was so displeased at their mirth, that he took upon himself to tell me that it was unbecoming to tell such equivocal stories in public.
Nothing could persuade her that it was unbecoming in her to think she could manage her life without reference to her seniors, and positively improper of her to walk about London by herself.
He had formed the flesh of Christ: wherefore it was unbecoming that it should be desecrated by intercourse with man.
For it was unbecoming that He should take to Himself a body as yet unformed.
It was therefore unbecoming that Christ should be made known to the Gentiles so long after His birth.
Therefore it seems unbecoming that, after leading such a strict life, He should return to the common manner of living.
Therefore it seems unbecoming that Christ should suffer Himself to be tempted by the devil.
Therefore, as to the first, it was unbecoming for Him to work miracles before He began to teach.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ was buried in an unbecoming manner.
For, if it be unbecoming for Christ to take a body of another nature in His conception, a heavenly one for instance, as Valentine asserted, it is much more unbecoming for Him at His Resurrection to resume a body of another nature, because in His Resurrection He resumed unto an everlasting life, the body which in His conception He had assumed to a mortal life.