unbecomingness

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The reason is that culpability is measured by inordinateness in respect of the end, while disgrace regards shamefulness, which depends chiefly on the unbecomingness of the sin in respect of the sinner.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

He keeps to this day a sense of its unbecomingness.

From The Mirrors of Washington by Kirby, John

And he was sensible, also, of a certain unbecomingness in such amusement on her part.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

I shall overlook the unbecomingness of certain expressions that you have used towards myself, because I can make allowance for an excited state of feeling.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Both of these, however, may be referred to the words which may happen to be sinful, either by reason of excess which belongs to "loquaciousness," or by reason of unbecomingness, which belongs to "scurrility."

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint