Thesaurus / unbefitting

unbefitting

How to use unbefitting in a sentence

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

KNUT HAMSUNHANNA ASTRUP LARSEN

Bilson was careless about the wine; Sophronia took to the wearing of gowns unbefitting a maid of forty years.

SHORT SIXESH. C. BUNNER

The simplest thing would be to come to an understanding with Katie, but that was unbefitting Lilly's station.

Sixty years since, a little turn-up nose was universally regarded as a nose wholly unbefitting a poet.

"A vulgarism not altogether unbefitting," said the Professor, stumbling along in the dark.

But nothing unbefitting thy worthiness, didst thou inflict, O pugilist Polydeuctes, on the conquered.

The wind waxed amain, and Biarni directed them to reef, and not to sail at a speed unbefitting their ship and rigging.

Wealthy patrons of the art looked more and more upon exact knowledge of it as unbefitting the learning of a gentleman.

In doing that there was nothing in my mind unbefitting the sadness of the day.

I decline to enter into an unbefitting altercation with you, Maurice.

PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985