unbecoming
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/
Adjective
unbecoming (comparative more unbecoming, superlative most unbecoming)
- Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:
- A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.
- She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.
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- Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
- He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
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Noun
unbecoming (plural unbecomings)
- The process by which something unbecomes.
- 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living
- By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
- 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living
Further reading
- unbecoming in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- unbecoming in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- unbecoming at OneLook Dictionary Search
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