Example sentences for: unbecoming

How can you use “unbecoming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Canada, the Canadian Jewish Congress is trying to have Birn removed from the government's war crimes division (where she helps build cases against Nazi war criminals) on the grounds that, by publishing with Finkelstein, she has demonstrated insensitivity unbecoming a public servant.

  • When Republicans asked CNN to drop Ferraro from Crossfire , complaining that she was using the program to advance her candidacy, Ferraro countered that "[i]t's almost unbecoming to see grown men whine."

  • It is amusing that he could mistake Brando's ludicrous and perfunctory posturing as some controlled experiment in caricature and parody, but the homoerotic slavering over Val Kilmer is infantile and unbecoming of anyone who is supposed to make informed aesthetic judgments.

  • The Zimbabwe Standard reported what it called "one of the most disgraceful incidents of unbecoming behaviour at the Parliament of Zimbabwe": A female member of Parliament was verbally and almost physically attacked--"nearly beaten up"--by a fellow legislator in the Members' Bar last week.

  • Columbine T-shirts, on the other hand, are a minor crime; it is unbecoming to chide weeping friends of the deceased for not reacting in a more stylish way.


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