Thesaurus / unbefitting
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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 LARSENBilson was careless about the wine; Sophronia took to the wearing of gowns unbefitting a maid of forty years.
SHORT SIXESH. C. BUNNERThe simplest thing would be to come to an understanding with Katie, but that was unbefitting Lilly's station.
THE SONG OF SONGSHERMANN SUDERMANNSixty years since, a little turn-up nose was universally regarded as a nose wholly unbefitting a poet.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. I (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON"A vulgarism not altogether unbefitting," said the Professor, stumbling along in the dark.
A YANKEE FROM THE WESTOPIE READBut nothing unbefitting thy worthiness, didst thou inflict, O pugilist Polydeuctes, on the conquered.
A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLALEIGH HUNTThe wind waxed amain, and Biarni directed them to reef, and not to sail at a speed unbefitting their ship and rigging.
THE NORTHMEN, COLUMBUS AND CABOT, 985-1503VARIOUSWealthy patrons of the art looked more and more upon exact knowledge of it as unbefitting the learning of a gentleman.
THE ART OF ARCHITECTUREANONYMOUSIn doing that there was nothing in my mind unbefitting the sadness of the day.
THE BELTON ESTATEANTHONY TROLLOPEI decline to enter into an unbefitting altercation with you, Maurice.
PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKWORDS RELATED TO UNBEFITTING
- cheap
- coarse
- crude
- discreditable
- disreputable
- in poor taste
- inappropriate
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- indecorous
- indelicate
- inelegant
- inept
- malapropos
- malodorous
- out of keeping
- out of place
- poor
- raffish
- rough
- rowdy
- rude
- ruffian
- tawdry
- unapt
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- undignified
- ungodly
- unrefined
- unsuitable
- untoward
- vulgar
- wrong
- clashing
- disagreeable
- discordant
- discrepant
- disparate
- disproportionate
- dissident
- dissonant
- ill-suited
- improper
- inadequate
- inadmissible
- inapposite
- inapt
- incompatible
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- inharmonious
- interfering
- irrelevant
- jarring
- malapropos
- out of character
- out of keeping
- out of place
- senseless
- unacceptable
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- uncalled-for
- undue
- unfit
- unfitting
- unmatched
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuited
- base
- beneath
- blamable
- contemptible
- degrading
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- good-for-nothing
- ignoble
- improper
- inappropriate
- ineligible
- inexcusable
- no-account
- no-good
- not deserving
- not fit
- not good enough
- not worth
- nothing
- offensive
- out of place
- recreant
- reprehensible
- shameful
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- undeserving
- unfit
- unmerited
- unseemly
- unsuitable
- valueless
- vile
- wretched
- wrong
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