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unbefitting



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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 6-foot-2, 202-pound safety has a title unbefitting of his job.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023

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

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




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