Unbecomingness

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ÊŒnbɪˈkÊŒmɪŋnÉ™s/

Origin

From - + becomingness.

Full definition of unbecomingness

Noun

1. A state of being unbecoming; unseemliness, inappropriateness.
• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: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 ....