unbecoming
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While both these instances are unbecoming, the latter is far more vile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
“It’s unbecoming of the office in which you represent.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025
Rather than being reported to the police the incident was recorded as "inappropriate behaviour unbecoming of a warrant officer".
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
We’ve become desensitized to the ritual by now, but slobbering over an elected official—of any stripe—is, and always will be, unbecoming.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025
Despite the extraordinary fineness of his features, and his age, and his general stature—clothed, he could easily have passed for a young, underweight danseur—the cigar was not markedly unbecoming to him.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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