becomingness

Example Sentences

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Poem to Phyllis, congratulating her on the becomingness of her Easter hat.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2019

I give you the two passages in full, trusting that you may so feel the becomingness of the one, and the gracelessness of the other.

From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

And the thing that struck me most in the look of it was not so much the cheerfulness, as the dignity;—in a true sense, the becomingness and decorousness of the ornament.

From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Nay, rather suitability, harmony, becomingness, unobtrusiveness, fitness for the place and person are the qualities that make it perfect.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

She forgot even the exceeding becomingness of a new way in which she had dressed her hair.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge