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Unbecomingness

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.

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unbecomingness

n. A state of being unbecoming; unseemliness, inappropriateness.

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unbecomingness

n. the quality of being unbecoming [ant: becomingness]

Usage examples of "unbecomingness".

For, after all, the second glance showed him as so much the same, the same to the unbecomingness of his clothes, the flatness of his features, the general effect of decision and placidity that he always, predominatingly, gave.