unbecoming

How To Use unbecoming In A Sentence

• Kate Winslet, cast before she played Marianne, wears no makeup and her hair is scraped back into an unbecoming bun.
• They are only worn at Christmas, and are remarkably unbecoming.
• We may note on the other hand that a rubric in the official "Rituale Romanum" enjoins that the priest ought to see that unbecoming or ridiculous names of deities or of godless pagans are not given in baptism (curet ne obscoena, fabulosa aut ridicula vel inanium deorum vel impiorum ethnicorum hominum nomina imponantur). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• Both of these, however, may be referred to the words which may happen to be sinful, either by reason of excess which belongs to "loquaciousness," or by reason of unbecomingness, which belongs to "scurrility. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• All this you asserted in terms unbecoming the place in which you stood, unbecoming the person to which they were addressed, and highly improper to be used by one who spoke about what he did not under - stand. Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures, (now first collected) to which are added, his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall ; with a preliminary essay, notes, fac
• His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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• I snickered as I watched Travers become an unbecoming shade of red.
• No one hears a word from your mouth unbecoming the character of a polite gentleman; and I shall always be very regardful of what falls from mine. Pamela
• But their persecution complex is unbecoming because it is unrealistic.