unbecoming
adjective
un·be·com·ing
ˌən-bi-ˈkə-miŋ 
: not becoming
an unbecoming dress
especially
: not according with the standards appropriate to one's position or condition of life
unbecoming conduct
unbecomingness
noun
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Examples of unbecoming in a Sentence
That color is very unbecoming on her.
boorish behavior that is unbecoming to an officer
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Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
To have lived through an encompassing albeit unbecoming love and have survived it with all the parts of herself intact feels like a triumph.
—Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
But again and again, the Quatuor Diotima tore into music of unforced content with unbecoming fury.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
This dog-run infighting is unbecoming in the presence of a dog that was once painted by Edgar Degas.
—Curbed, 20 July 2022
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“Unbecoming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbecoming. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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unbecoming
adjective
un·be·com·ing
ˌən-bi-ˈkəm-iŋ
: not becoming
an unbecoming dress
unbecomingly
adverb
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