unbecomingness

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Noun 1. unbecomingness - the quality of being unbecoming

indecorousness, indecorum - a lack of decorum

becomingness - the quality of being becoming

unbecomingness

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The condition of being improper:

improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, unfitness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness.

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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,

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She could not in the least make clear to herself the reasons for her husband's dislike to his presence-- a dislike painfully impressed on her by the scene in the library; but she felt the unbecomingness of saying anything that might convey a notion of it to others.

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(2007: 154) This identification is based, beyond their shared physical 'unbecomingness' and common appreciation of food (due to its scarcity), on the fact that, as Bich herself acknowledges, "[i]n many ways, their pioneer life reminded me of immigrant life.

Incendio en la Casa de la Pradera: pioneras asiaticas en la Norteamerica contemporanea