Example sentences for: unbecoming

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

  • Dissenters complain that Grisham's plot is unbecoming material for a director of Altman's caliber.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In clothing, optical chaos offered up as carefully unbecoming unbeauty is meant to refer to the idea of modernism rather than embracing it directly, in bodily terms.


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