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発音

• IPA: /ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/

形容詞

unbecoming (comparative more unbecoming, superlative most unbecoming)

1. Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.

   She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:

     A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.

   • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:

     With its lavish brass and copperwork, this [bright chocolate] seemed a trifle too gay and unbecoming for a G.W.R. locomotive, and apparently the Company soon shared this view for there was a reversion to the standard Brunswick green.

   • 2017 July 12, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 7, Chapter 7, Part 2:

     ― Lily: “Don’t stare so much. It’s unbecoming. It makes you look like a country bumpkin.”

   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎:

     Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

2. Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.

   He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

   • 2003, General Synod of the Church of England, “Section 8(3)”, in Clergy Discipline Measure 2003‎, page 4:

     No proceedings in respect of unbecoming conduct shall be taken in respect of the lawful political opinions or activities of any bishop, priest or deacon.

   • 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “You must be able to smell it too, Chloe. That smell of . . . Well, I’m not going to say what it reminds me of, that would be impolite and unbecoming of a woman of my class and distinction, but it’s a bad smell.”

   • 2019 November 17, 48:00, in Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein‎, BBC Newsnight:

     [Prince Andrew:] Do I regret the fact that he [Jeff Epstein] has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming? Yes.
     [Emily Maitlis]: Unbecoming? He was a sex offender.
     [Prince Andrew:] Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm being polite.

同意語

• unsuitable
• unfit
• indecent
• indecorous
• improper

反意語

• becoming
• befitting
• suiting

関連する語

• unbecomingly
• unbecomingness

動詞

unbecoming

1. present participle and gerund of unbecome

名詞

unbecoming (plural unbecomings)

1. The process by which something unbecomes.
   • 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living:

     By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]

Further reading

• “unbecoming”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “unbecoming”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “unbecoming”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.