unbecomingness

Example Sentences

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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 Harte, Bret

I shall overlook the unbecomingness of certain expressions that you have used towards myself, because I can make allowance for an excited state of feeling.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

He keeps to this day a sense of its unbecomingness.

From The Mirrors of Washington by Kirby, John

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

She merely desired, like many of us, the comfort of being selfish without the unbecomingness of appearing so.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud