unbeseeming

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

unbeseeming

  1. present participle and gerund of unbeseem

Adjective[edit]

unbeseeming (comparative more unbeseeming, superlative most unbeseeming)

  1. unbecoming; not seemly
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      they are so cholerick and tetty, that no man may speak with them, and break many times into violent passions, oaths, imprecations, and unbeseeming speeches
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