Thesaurus / unbefitting
FEEDBACKEXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
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.
THE SONG OF SONGSHERMANN SUDERMANN
Sixty 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 READ
But nothing unbefitting thy worthiness, didst thou inflict, O pugilist Polydeuctes, on the conquered.
A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLALEIGH HUNT
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.
THE ART OF ARCHITECTUREANONYMOUS
In doing that there was nothing in my mind unbefitting the sadness of the day.
THE BELTON ESTATEANTHONY TROLLOPE
I decline to enter into an unbefitting altercation with you, Maurice.
PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
WORDS 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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