Example sentences for: unbecoming

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • You have been managing this very gracefully, I notice with (unbecoming) egotistical irritation.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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