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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unbecoming \Un'be*com"ing\, adjective [Pref. un- not + becoming.] Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.
My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. --Dryden. -- {Un'be*com"ing*ly}, adverb -- {Un'be*com"ing*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unbecoming
adjective
1: considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person; "an unbecoming style"
2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: {indecent}, {indecorous}, {uncomely}, {unseemly}, {untoward}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "unbecoming": awkward, beneath one, cheap, chintzy, clumsy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disgraceful, gauche, gutter, humiliating, humiliative, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, in bad taste, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, maladroit, malapropos, malodorous, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, offensive, opprobrious, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, outrageous, pitiful, rough, sad, scandalous, shameful, shocking, sorry, tasteless, too bad, unadapted, unapt, unbefitting, unbeseeming, undecorous, undignified, undue, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, ungodly, unladylike, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward, unworthy of one, vulgar
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