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Federalists in Congress said the columned walkways had a whiff of aristocracy unbefitting the building’s democratic simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The LSK denounced his shooting as unbefitting for "any sane democracy".

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

The relationship was not “romantic or sexual” but “unguarded and unwise,” he said then, and included “coarse and foolish joking that’s unbefitting of someone in my position.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Many of our provocateurs pontificate because their egos are overblown; with her casual humility, Atwood is taking risks unbefitting of a nice old lady.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022

No doubt he might have won her, but he is restrained by the horror of being grotesque and indulging in antics unbefitting his age.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup




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