unbefitting
Example Sentences
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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 proposal to name a San Francisco post office after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein struck some as unbefitting the gravitas of her half-century career in politics.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
The Polish ambassador to the United States, Piotr Wilczek, called Mr. Fulop’s comments “false, hurtful and unbefitting of international dialogue between office holders of two allied countries.”
From New York Times • May 11, 2018
No more doubt than had the fair and virtuous Countess of Salisbury, who, so Froissart tells us, chilled the lawless passion of Edward the Third by the simple expedient of wearing unbefitting clothes.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
