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.
Wiktionary
adv. In an unbecoming manner.
WordNet
adv. without decorousness [syn: indecorously] [ant: decorously]
Usage examples of "unbecomingly".
When the chambermaid at the inn led her up to an empty bedchamber, one glance at the looking-glass was enough to confirm her in the belief that no lady, however handsome, could drive for two hundred miles in a mail-coach carrying its full complement of six inside passengers without emerging at her destination in an unbecomingly travel-worn condition.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ was unbecomingly presented in the Temple.
Wherefore the holiness of righteousness is required in the minister, that he may be suitable for his ministry: for which reason he acts unbecomingly and sins, if while in a state of sin he attempts to fulfil that ministry.
More than one unbecomingly flushed young lady was fanning herself, and several shirt-points were beginning to wilt.
She spoke French now, attended the church of Sainte Rita, had her grey hair unbecomingly dressed by M.
Her strong, short body was dressed in unbecomingly tight vorlage trousers topped by a grey wind-jacket ornamented over the left breast with a large red G topped by a coronet.
Wherefore the holiness of righteousness is required in the minister, that he may be suitable for his ministry: for which reason he acts unbecomingly and sins, if while in a state of sin he attempts to fulfil that ministry.
A woman hastened down to her from the crowd on the dais, skinny and flustery, her narrow, white face framed unbecomingly in tight-pulled, black hair.
For will any one of good sense approve of my being whipped because, as a boy, I played ball, and so was hindered from learning quickly those lessons by means of which, as a man, I should play more unbecomingly?
He found himself waxing unbecomingly censorial with respect to his patient, for he was unravelling in his mind an internal monologue along the lines of: `Surely a priest should set a teeter example than this?