beseem
verb (used with object)
to be fit for or worthy of; become.
unbeseeming
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a word derived from
beseem.
Example Sentences
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Gregory Nazianzen a Father of the Church, thought it not unbeseeming the sanctity of his person to write a Tragedy which he entitl'd, Christ suffering.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
That is not out of disrespect to you, but because I think it would be unbeseeming to me.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Dear divine girl, my own exalted Isabel!" cried Pierre, catching the offered hand with ungovernable emotion, "how most unbeseeming, that this strange hardness, and this still stranger littleness should be united in any human hand.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
I bewail that my conceivings fall so short, my apprehensions are so dull, my thoughts so mean, my affections so stupid, expressions so low, and unbeseeming such a glory.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Hawkins: "Never expresse anything unbeseeming, nor act against the Rules morall, before thy inferiours, for in these things, thy own guilt will multiply Crimes by example, and as it were, confirme Ill by authority."
From George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway by Moncure Daniel Conway
