unbecomingness
English
Etymology
From un- + becomingness.
Pronunciation
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Noun
unbecomingness (uncountable)
- A state of being unbecoming; unseemliness, inappropriateness.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm [...].