unbecoming
/ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
adj
Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
Example Sentences
- "She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle."
- "A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it."
- "With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green."
- "― Lily: “Don’t stare so much. It’s unbecoming. It makes you look like a country bumpkin.”"
- "Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold."
- "He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman."