unbecoming

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.

   She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.

2. 2
   adj

   Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.

   He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

3. 3
   noun

   The process by which something unbecomes.

   By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […].

4. 4
   adj

   not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing

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