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Unbecomingly

adverb
1.
Without decorousness.  Synonym: indecorously.






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"Unbecomingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... yourself a good deal in your way of speaking to me on this subject," she said coldly. "When I behaved unbecomingly in my youth, my mother always recommended me to go upstairs, shut myself up alone in my room, and collect my thoughts. The process had invariably a calming effect. I ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... particularly by three exemplary and virtuous ladies, they having been cautioned against him by one who knows him well, and is a friend likewise to said ladies, and doing all the good kindness he can. We learn with sorrow, that our curate has confessed to unbecomingly behaviour, and that he has been seen even kissing. My Lord, our wives and daughters are not safe—we implore your Honour's Lordship to dismiss the curate, and take them under your protection and keeping: We are informed the curate has a foreign lady, not far from this, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... kitchen maid frightened into the house. Great anxiety was now manifested to see an animal of such rare qualities; and on further search being made, he was discovered in neighbor Kimball's yard, fraternizing with his pet fox, and otherwise conducting himself so unbecomingly, as to make it evident that the friends of free love had inducted him into the mysteries of their system. In truth, he bore no small resemblance to a few of the disciples of that very accommodating system, for he was lean ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"



Words linked to "Unbecomingly" :   unbecoming, decorously



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