misbecome

American  

[mis-bi-kuhm] / ˌmɪs bɪˈkʌm /

verb (used with object)

misbecame, misbecome, misbecoming

1. to be unsuitable, unbecoming, or unfit for.

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misbecome British  

/ ˌmɪsbɪˈkʌm /

verb

1. (tr) to be unbecoming to or unsuitable for

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Etymology

Origin of misbecome

First recorded in 1520–30; mis- ¹ + become

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Example Sentences

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misbecome misbecame misbecoming

And, indeed, I thought it did not wholly misbecome me as it was, being by nature curly.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Papal authority, so often subservient, so often prejudicial to his designs, he called to his assistance in a cause which did not misbecome it,—the cause of a father attacked by his children.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Had we insisted on a concession of antecedent right, it may not misbecome us, either as moralists or politicians, to consider what Grimaldi could have answered.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson

"A careless song with a little nonsense in it now and then does not misbecome a monarch."

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Slight regard, contempt, And anything that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.

From King Henry V by William Shakespeare

So the heart of the Marquis was hardened, and he was strengthened to do that which misbecame him both as a gentleman and a landlord.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

But having acquired it she discovered herself to be too tall and too broad for it, so that it misbecame her mightily.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Katharine Tynan

Thou didst what deed that misbecame thy life?

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

More than all, I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Your most sprightly Flights borrow no Graces from Detraction; you never speak a misbecoming Word, nor do an ill-natur’d Action, tho’ ’tis always in your Power.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

If ladies prefer what is ugly and misbecoming, the dressmakers have to make it.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge

Is there any thing misbecoming or ungentle about me?

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by William Burnaby

For to have apologized to every one had been too servile and misbecoming the dignity of his person; whereas equally to have neglected every one had been an act of insolence and imprudence.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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