How To Use Unbecoming In A Sentence
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Kate Winslet, cast before she played Marianne, wears no makeup and her hair is scraped back into an unbecoming bun.
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They are only worn at Christmas, and are remarkably unbecoming.
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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
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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
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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
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His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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He mellow torpedo in setophaga shetland uncrannied unbecomingly our drippiness tomalley and mundanity filmmaker.
Rational Review
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I snickered as I watched Travers become an unbecoming shade of red.
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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
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But their persecution complex is unbecoming because it is unrealistic.
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Second, it is unbecoming for her not to be accompanied by someone to look after her, as she is a woman of rank.
KARA KUSH
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Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
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In a letter to the committee, Mr Sherlock, who was not represented and did not attend, accepted that his behaviour was an abuse of trust and conduct unbecoming of a pharmacist.
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Undoubtedly the behaviour of the sergeant was unchivalrous and unbecoming of the office he occupies.
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`It could be considered unbecoming in an officer and a gentleman if you went back on your word.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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Second, it is unbecoming for her not to be accompanied by someone to look after her, as she is a woman of rank.
KARA KUSH
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He had acted in a manner unbecoming a human being by keeping something from her.
THE OPEN DOOR
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His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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Avoid blots and erasures; they indicate carelessness or unbecoming haste.
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From a practical standpoint, that's probably true… but there is something unbecoming all around.
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After everyone is covered in paint (you wear an unbecoming white suit to protect your clothing), there is an opportunity for everyone to bash each other over the head with foam sticks.
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His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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Daniels had been discharged on conduct unbecoming an officer when he knifed someone in a bar in Saigon in 1972.
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Either choice is unbecoming of a judicial candidate.
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He had been due to appear before a diocesan Consistory Court on 21 charges of conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders and one of serious, persistent or continuous neglect of duty.
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Without giving approval, Prudie will tell you what a friend in a similar situation does: Every year she picks out a piece of clothing that is unbecoming and one size too small.
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This wasting away in the trenches, you don't think it's a bit unbecoming ?
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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It may result in the putting on trial of the dean in the church courts on a charge of conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders, and an announcement is expected within weeks.
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It gets dirty too easily, and for a lot of people it's an unbecoming color.
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The weakness of the narrative derives from the realism the film achieves: the tigers are so believable - as real tigers and as multifaceted characters - that the film's fairytale ending is unbecoming.
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With THE SOCORRO BLAST, I thought people would object to the idea that our current national paranoia squirts out, in unbecoming ways, even in small towns.
Objectionable content
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Opinion columnists, meanwhile, busied themselves penning snide articles about Trollope, admonishing her for behaviour unbecoming of a grandmother of two.
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‘Stop wrinkling your nose,’ Cate snapped, ‘It's rather unbecoming, Genevieve.’
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Governor satisfaction and punishment upon the accuser, and a notary, one Robin, who prepared notarial acts, in an unbecoming affrontive manner.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
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But it is one and the same God, the Father of our Lord, from whom also the prophets had their mission, who does indeed, through His infinite kindness, call the unworthy; but He examines those who are called, [to ascertain] if they have on the garment fit and proper for the marriage of His Son, because nothing unbecoming or evil pleases Him.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Scottish resources have always been thin and an unbecoming tug-of-war has broken out over several of the best under-21 players after the side's second win of the season against Italy.
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They should know that yelling at a woman and making her fear she was in harm is no excuse -- it is despicable and unbecoming of an elected official and a candidate for Congress.
Kellam- Guilty means "Not Convicted"
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In those days Peter wore his rue — whether for lady fair or for towering prospects stricken down — with a tinge of wan melancholy not unbecoming to a gentle aquilinity of profile, softened by the grace of adolescence.
Judith of the Plains
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His face began to turn as red as hers, and a most unbecoming look of nervousness crossed his face before he answered,
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She was wearing an unbecoming shade of purple.
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He bowled his last delivery in first-class cricket, at the end of an inconsequential match for Durham against the 1993 Australian tourists, with his member hanging out of his trousers, an act which Wisden coyly described as "unbecoming and flippant".
Ian Botham by Simon Wilde - review
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And "screwed up" is gutter slang unbecoming of the leader of the free world.
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language unbecoming to a lady
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We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holy days, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy saints.
Feast of the Sacred Heart
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If you send a regular e-mail, rather than using the form, be certain to use the word "mailbag" in the subject header -- otherwise your mail may be directed to the spam folder or possibly be ignored in an unbecoming manner.
St. Louis Cardinals News
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A consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.
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I am aware that my horror is both unbecoming and untraditional.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any officer who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer shall be court-martialled.
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This behaviour is inexcusable and unbecoming of a registered medical practitioner.
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‘This follows allegations of conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders,’ it stated.
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Green with verdigris - not an unbecoming shade - and draped in robes, she holds in her hands two laurel wreaths.
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Bungay that John Crumb was ready at any hour to punch the head of any man who should hint that Ruby Ruggles had, at any period of her life, done any act or spoken any word unbecoming a young lady; and so strong was the general belief in John Crumb, that Ruby became the subject of general eulogy from all male lips in the town.
The Way We Live Now
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You should really close your mouth, it's really unbecoming.
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There really is something very unbecoming about grown men chasing crabs on beaches alone.
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This sent her into even more dramatic hysterics and she began hiccuping unbecomingly.
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It's unbecoming to say the least, and I'm not sure that he and I can carry on for too much longer without me setting some ground rules.
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You tell me in the car that my red fingernail polish is unbecoming.
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I believe it's unbecoming for the well off to whine about high taxes, and inconsistent for those who advocate human rights to oppose all American military action.
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Although his middle-class family considered such a calling unbecoming, as a child he thought of becoming a painter or cartoonist.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The following day, Pakistan followed suit by ordering three Indian diplomats to leave for ‘behaviour unbecoming of a diplomat’.
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He was accused of conduct unbecoming to an officer.
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The scandal-invoking inquiry into her personality that appeared instead was both unprofessional and unbecoming.
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Naivete is so unbecoming, especially in the jaded entertainment industry.
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His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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You observe a door on the first landing, carefully guarded by two waiters, in and out of which stout gentlemen with very red faces keep running, with a degree of speed highly unbecoming the gravity of persons of their years and corpulency.
Sketches by Boz
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Getting the vapors over a critic screaming his outrage in full-throated disgust at the abandonment of humane ideals is to play the courtly stooge in a manner most unbecoming an honest mind. — catalexis
Easing Off Online Obscenities - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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It's the "unbecoming" part that leads me to associate the word effeminate with a degree of campiness that I don't believe applies to Renly and Loras.
Meet GRRM and (maybe) cast and crew
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Instead of using coercion unbecoming of a republic, the best way to help other nations onto the path of freedom is to lead by example.
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Such an outburst is clearly unbecoming from a Senior Citizen.
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The idiot in the unbecoming South Sea island shirt spilled the straightforward chance at immortality and the England opener's confidence swelled almost visibly.
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Dani is remanded to the juvenile correctional facility for conduct unbecoming a minor.
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Tugging her limp hair, and leaning forward to inspect the unbecoming bags under her eyes, she sighed.
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Green with verdigris - not an unbecoming shade - and draped in robes, she holds in her hands two laurel wreaths.
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uncommon warmth of temperament" -- a polite appellation for a most violent temper; and of "unbecoming coarseness" -- a delicate definement of
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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His conduct was totally unbecoming to an officer in the British armed services.
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The fact of the matter is that the new design is unbecoming, and as much as it may have better target value it has even higher ugly value.
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She was wearing an unbecoming shade of purple.
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The most unbecoming thing you can do is get all catty with her.
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You don't want all your hair standing on end, its very unbecoming.
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There is in a grave disposition, when carried to the point of stiffness and ill-grace toward women, something coarsely pedantic, that is unbecoming in great talents and ridiculous in lesser ones.
Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume
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To the contrary, this is conduct unbecoming any attorney or legal adviser working in a position of trust.
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The modification of old-fashioned rules in this regard has made the lines faint, it is true, and there is no book on etiquette that does not reprehend as “unbecoming a gentleman” smoking in drawing-rooms, boudoirs, dining-rooms, restaurants, where now men not only are allowed, and invited, to smoke, but where highly respectable women have been known to join them.
Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade
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Essential for wearing under spaghetti strap vests, it has banished the unbecoming sight of curvy women tugging up their strapless numbers.
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They think it is elitist, that it bestows on individuals a level importance unbecoming of sportspeople, especially those involved in team sports.
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Lest anyone accuse the Times of unbecoming hubris, the redesign is characterized not just as ‘gentle’ but ‘modest.’
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But when I'm in a hurry, I trip unbecomingly over anything that's in my way.
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Even very senior officers can beguiled into behaving unbecomingly, cruelly, and destructively while believing they are acting in the best tradition of the service.
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What she did know that it had been enough to cause her to slaver most unbecomingly.
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Unbecoming as they are in a young unmarried female, a much stricter sense of decorum, a vastly different repose and reserve of manner, are absolutely essential in a wife; and it is as a _wife_, Kate, that I am now addressing you.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography
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Do you not realize how unbecoming and unattractive these faux oxygen-sapping vocal inflections are?
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Traditionally, square shoulders were regarded as unbecoming for girls, so my shoulders were bound tightly to make them grow into the required slopy shape.
Wild Swans
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IT IS POSSIBLE - though I am reluctant to believe it - that my advocacy of reading aloud proposes activity too idiosyncratic, if not actually unbecoming, for most people.
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But it had become an acknowledged fact in Bungay that John Crumb was ready at any hour to punch the head of any man who should hint that Ruby Ruggles had, at any period of her life, done any act or spoken any word unbecoming a young lady; and so strong was the general belief in John Crumb, that Ruby became the subject of general eulogy from all male lips in the town.
The Way We Live Now
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He quit as he faced trial before an ecclesiastical court on 21 charges of conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders.
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He had acted in a manner unbecoming a human being by keeping something from her.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Any officer who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer shall be court-martialled.
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Another thing: cavalry can trot away from anything, and a gallop is a gait unbecoming a soldier, unless he is going toward the enemy.
The Romance of the Civil War
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Ministers resigned even if caught in an unbecoming controversy suggesting dereliction of duty, attracting public accountability even if without fault.
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They maintain that Irving's conduct was unbecoming of a reputable historian.
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Days later, the Caricom summit's opening session heard Mr Manning's recriminations, unbecomingly and unhelpfully directed at former regional beneficiaries of T & T largesse.
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He was accused of conduct unbecoming to an officer.
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Nothing could be further from the truth, and the level of intellectual dishonesty apparent in Malanga's work is unbecoming of such an otherwise respectable journal.
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She, active and fresh-looking still, but settling into that fair largeness which is not unbecoming a lady of middle-age, he, inclined to a slight stoop, with the lines of his face more sharply defined, and the hair wearing away off his forehead up to the crown.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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So take off that unbecoming frown.
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It's a little unbecoming for an older man to be ordering young women to wear bikinis and act out roles that might be called ‘male fantasies.’
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You can guff all you like about the Platonic ideal of going from one visa to another to the I-485 to the N-400 to the oath — your combination of snotty condescension and Aspergian fixatedness on your own formulations is really unbecoming — but the course of immigration bureaucracy rarely runs as smoothly as your abstract and verbose pontificating suggests.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American!
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This wasting away in the trenches, you don't think it's a bit unbecoming ?
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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She went looking for him; found a man with an unbecoming moustache and eyes that stuck out ‘like a crayfish's’.
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Dress, it seemed to me, was all she cared for; and there was a captiousness and ill-temper about her, at times, that was, to say the least of it, very unbecoming.
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`It could be considered unbecoming in an officer and a gentleman if you went back on your word.
TANK OF SERPENTS