unbecomingness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋnəs/ (UK)
Etymology
From un- + becomingness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A state of being unbecoming; unseemliness, inappropriateness.
At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm [...].
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: