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misbecome, v.|mɪsbɪˈkʌm|
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To fail to become; to suit ill; to be unsuitable or unbecoming to.
1530Palsgr. 637/1 It mysbecometh, as a garment mysbecometh one, or any other comunycacion, or other behavour. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. ii. 100 Speake..What I haue done, that misbecame my place. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 35 A Frank light can mis-become no ædifice whateuer. 1638Bp. Wilkins New World v. (1707) 39 An Opinion altogether misbecoming a Philosopher. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xv. vi, Nothing could misbecome me more, than to presume to give any hint to one of your great understanding. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 464 He declined no drudgery..provided only that it were such drudgery as did not misbecome an honest man. 1889Swinburne B. Jonson 108 Such sweeping denunciation of all contemporary poetry as would not have misbecome the utterance of incarnate envy. |