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How can you use “behooves” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:
But it behooves both Schoenfeld and Culturebox, with the prestige and reach of magazines such as
It ill behooves us to be unfair to any segment of the population, and it is not only immoral but illegal to discriminate against people on virtually any basis.
Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
It ill behooves us to criticize its emptiness, for we all utter Good morning, Good afternoon, Goodby, How are you?, Hello , and numerous other salutational and valedictory remarks in the course of the day.
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