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 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
Inez had specially loved to work for her brother, that so poverty should not oblige him to dress in a way unbefitting his birth.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
