Thesaurus / unbecoming
FEEDBACKsynonyms for unbecoming
synonyms for unbecoming
- indecent
- unflattering
- unseemly
- untoward
- awkward
- clumsy
- discreditable
- gauche
- ill-suited
- inappropriate
- inapt
- incongruous
- indecorous
- indelicate
- inept
- maladroit
- malapropos
- offensive
- rough
- salacious
- tacky
- tasteless
- unattractive
- unbefitting
- uncomely
- undue
- unfair
- unfit
- unfitting
- ungodly
- unhandsome
- unlovely
- unseasonable
- unsightly
- unsuited
- untimely
- unworthy
See also synonyms for: unbecomingness
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A faculty committee deemed his use of the Fifth Amendment “conduct unbecoming an institute professor” and said it showed a lack of candor on his part.
HOW AN MIT MARXIST WEATHERED THE RED SCARESIMSON GARFINKEL ’87, PHD ’05JUNE 29, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSwearing, as I have said, was not considered low or vulgar or unbecoming a gentleman.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWTo come in, flushed from a hurried toilette, to meet your first callers, is unbecoming as well as rude.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYChoosing to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of the wicked, and to suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIt is full of crazy ideas that are most unbecoming in a young girl, and I dont consider such things proper for you to read.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHYes, I knowconduct unbecoming an officer and a gentlemana plain case, too, it seems to me.
A HORSE'S TALEMARK TWAINShe decided that anything beyond the most modest admission would be unbecoming.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSONBad as their public conduct was, he and his colleagues owed their fall chiefly to their unbecoming behaviour to their sovereign.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTInstead, you have to wear an unbecoming frock like the gentleman in the Bab ballads, and work on the roads.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMWhere have you been, and why do you come home in this strange and unbecoming manner?'
A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAYWORDS RELATED TO UNBECOMING
- adverse
- afflicted
- awkward
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cursed
- damaging
- deplorable
- desperate
- destitute
- disastrous
- doomed
- forsaken
- hapless
- hopeless
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in a bad way
- inappropriate
- inept
- infelicitous
- inopportune
- jinxed
- lamentable
- luckless
- out of luck
- pained
- poor
- regrettable
- ruined
- ruinous
- shattered
- star-crossed
- stricken
- troubled
- unbecoming
- unfavorable
- unhappy
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untoward
- wretched
- bad form
- disproportionate
- foot-in-mouth
- garbage
- ill-fitted
- ill-suited
- ill-timed
- improper
- inapplicable
- inapropos
- incongruous
- inconsonant
- incorrect
- indecorous
- inept
- irrelevant
- left-field
- malapropos
- off
- out of line
- out of place
- tasteless
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- undue
- unfit
- unfitting
- unmeet
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuitable
- untimely
- way-off
- wrong
- wrong number
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.