unbeseeming
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]unbeseeming
- present participle and gerund of unbeseem
Adjective
[edit]unbeseeming (comparative more unbeseeming, superlative most unbeseeming)
- unbecoming; not seemly
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] 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