Found 3 hits - Term: unbecoming, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unbecoming \un`becom"ing\, a. pref. un- not + becoming.
not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.
1913 webster
my grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. --dryden.
1913 webster -- un`becom"ingly, adv. --
un`becom"ingness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
un`becom"ingly un`becom"ingness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
unbecoming
adj 1: considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular
person; "an unbecoming style"
2: 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
see also:
indecent indecorous uncomely unseemly untoward
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
93 moby thesaurus words for "unbecoming":
awkward, beneath one, cheap, chintzy, clumsy, debasing, degrading,
demeaning, deplorable, disgraceful, gauche, gutter, humiliating,
humiliative, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted,
ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper,
in bad taste, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite,
inappropriate, inapt, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet,
inelegant, inept, infelicitous, infra dig, infra indignitatem,
irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, maladroit, malapropos,
malodorous, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, offensive,
opprobrious, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping,
out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season,
out of time, out of tune, outrageous, pitiful, rough, sad,
scandalous, shameful, shocking, sorry, tasteless, too bad,
unadapted, unapt, unbefitting, unbeseeming, undecorous,
undignified, undue, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, ungenteel,
ungentlemanly, ungodly, unladylike, unqualified, unseasonable,
unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward,
unworthy of one, vulgar
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