unbefitting
- a word derived from befitting.
Example Sentences
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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 proposal to name a San Francisco post office after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein struck some as unbefitting the gravitas of her half-century career in politics.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024
The 6-foot-2, 202-pound safety has a title unbefitting of his job.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2023
This last practice was, however, forbidden in N�rnberg in 1485, "because the carousals and dances had become unbefitting the holy place."
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
