unbeseeming

unbeseeming

(ˌʌnbɪˈsiːmɪŋ)
adj
unbecoming; unsuitable
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Philander," remonstrated Professor Porter; "it is most unbeseeming in you to submit to such indignities."
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[i]t may be thought strange, and unbeseeming our sex, to shew ourselves by
Mistress Stagg's petitioners: February 1642
praises Peter as one who neither "Affect[ed] fashions, nor [was] addicted wholly / To unbeseeming blushless vanities" (93-94).
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To unbeseeming blushless vanities, 95 But suiting(14) so his habit and desire
The text of "A Funeral Elegy" by W. S

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