unbecoming
adjective
detracting from one's appearance, character, or reputation; unattractive or unseemly.
unbecomingness
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a word derived from
unbecoming.
Example Sentences
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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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
He keeps to this day a sense of its unbecomingness.
From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby
Nevertheless this unbecomingness is outweighed by necessity: and for this reason such persons can plead either their own cause or that of persons closely connected with them.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
She merely desired, like many of us, the comfort of being selfish without the unbecomingness of appearing so.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver
And for the same reason, the unbecomingness of that which is hated is felt more keenly than the becomingness of that which is loved.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
