unbecomingnessn.
/ˌʌnbᵻˈkʌmɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənbəˈkəmɪŋnᵻs/ (un- prefix1 6.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [noun]
unseemlinessc1380
indecency1589
undecency1589
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfittingness > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unlikelinessa1413
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
improperty1555
unproperness1561
unmeetness1574
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
impropriety1697
indecence1714
paw-pawness1828
unadaptedness1846
unbefittingness1865
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
unseemingness1540
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
misbecomingness1644
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unworthiness1608
inconveniencya1616
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
indecorousness1811
1652 J. Hall tr. Longinus Περι Ὑψους 9 All these extream unbecomingnesses have defaced Eloquence.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §75 If Words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, kind and sober, representing the ill, or unbecomingness of the Fault.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 98 Flippancy... Deviation from decency... Unbecomingness.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxiv. 191 She felt the unbecomingness of saying anything that might convey a notion of it to others.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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