unbecomingness
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He keeps to this day a sense of its unbecomingness.
From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby
She merely desired, like many of us, the comfort of being selfish without the unbecomingness of appearing so.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver
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."
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
And he was sensible, also, of a certain unbecomingness in such amusement on her part.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
This accounted for her strange appearance; but Fleming noticed that the girl's manner had not the slightest consciousness of their unbecomingness, nor of the charms of face and figure they had marred.
From From Sand Hill to Pine by Bret Harte
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