A New Hampshire lady having presented to him a soft felt hat of her own manufacture, he was at a loss what to do on his arrival in Washington, as the felt hat seemed unbecoming for a President-elect.
The editor would not be thought to justify the author of this History, in all points, or even to attempt to acquit him of unbecoming prejudices and partiality.
Which, all things considered, was thought very indecent in him, yet not unbecoming the rest of his life and character.
Indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit=--Things unbecoming are to be held becoming if the master does them.
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy; on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecomingin either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
Intuta quæ indecora=--What isunbecoming is unsafe.
Both had their hair cut closely round above their ears, in the unbecoming fashion of twenty years before.
Buxom Mrs. Lalage, shall the dressmaker therefore put unbecoming trimmings in your bonnet?
Surely a grand ambition, not unbecoming to his years and station, and pleasant in its labours to a man who loved Nature's outward scenery with poetic passion, and had studied her inward mysteries with a sage's minute research.
Either she was trifling with him, or else she was behaving in a manner utterly unbecoming the future wife of the Archduke.
For it was unbecoming that He should take to Himself a body as yet unformed.
Objection 1: It would seem that it was unbecoming when Christ was baptized for the Father's voice to be heard bearing witness to the Son.
He had formed the flesh of Christ: wherefore it was unbecoming that it should be desecrated by intercourse with man.
Therefore, as to the first, it wasunbecoming for Him to work miracles before He began to teach.
For this reason it is unbecoming that Christ should have a character: but His Priesthood is compared to a character, as that which is complete and perfect is compared to some participation of itself.
Therefore it seems unbecoming to say that when Christ was baptized "the heavens were opened.
But it seems unbecoming that so excellent a being created by God should cease to exist as soon as the sacrament is complete.
But our Lord did nothing unbecoming to His age; and hence He did not give ear to hearing the lessons of doctrine until such time as He was able to have reached that grade of knowledge by way of experience.
Therefore it seems unbecoming that, after leading such a strict life, He should return to the common manner of living.
Therefore it seems unbecoming that Christ should suffer Himself to be tempted by the devil.
Therefore it isunbecoming for such consecrations to be performed in the Church.
Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, court-martial and publicity, were not to be thought of as involving her name in such a scandal.
No one could swear that he had seen Ray drink; no one could swear he had played any game for any stake; no one could testify to a single act of his that was in the faintest degree unofficerlike or unbecoming a gentleman.
Wehlau frowned, and said, reprovingly, "Hans, it is veryunbecoming so to criticise a worthy man of science.
Not another word in that tone, which is unbecomingboth to your superior officer and to your mother's father.
I told my papa; he thought it veryunbecoming in a man of an ancient noble line.
Defn: To beunbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.
Defn: The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
Defn: To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
Defn: In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.
His discourse at table was scandalously unbecoming the digmity of his station.
A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.
Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.
Such lack of candor however is also highly unbecoming a commentator.
For the latter are becoming, but the former are unbecoming and indicative of vice within.
They may perhaps not be unbecoming an imaginative poet; but they are out of place in a theologian.
No frivolous abandon is allowed; pins, and even pomade, are resorted to, until what is undoubtedly beautiful in itself is rendered sufficiently unbecoming to soothe the most fastidiously decorous mind.
Women who lived in semi-civilised lands acquired characteristicsunbecoming to their sex.
She is always sincere and thoughtful for others; and she would never do anything unbecoming to her sex, or unworthy of herself.
He liked La Fontaine better, by reason of his extreme naturalness, but his unbecoming conduct at the time of the Fouquet trial proved painful to his Majesty, who considered the following verses passing strange: ".
This may excuse the somewhat unusual and even unbecomingnature of his language concerning the dying lady, but his memory was quite wrong about his prophecy.
But Knox, in telling the story of a murder which he approves, unhappily displays a glee unbecoming a reformer of the Church of Him who blamed St. Peter for his recourse to the sword.
Accused by the Master of Maxwell of unbecoming conduct, Knox said that such things had been done before, and he had the warrant "of God, speaking plainly in his Word.
And now, how unbecoming in the Senate to practise this indirection, and to do by a false name what cannot be done by its true one.
I trust it will not be unbecoming the occasion, if I allude to your own important agency in that transaction.
For it would be equally unbecoming for me to hesitate about accepting your offer as for you who made it to look upon it as a bore.
This latter ornament, which has probably been given him by a slave captain, had by no means an unbecoming appearance.
Merely being too attractive has often been confounded with a love of flirtation and conquest, unbecoming always in a man, and excused in a woman on the ground of her helplessness.
The pathetic aspect of the case has not, however, we are sorry to say, struck the American press, which has too often treated with unbecoming levity this unaccountable exhibition of English sensitiveness.
Not to lie is perhaps as much a matter of insular pride as of morals; to lie is unbecoming an Englishman.
And then and there he considered that it was unbecoming him to turn his head from side to side.
She exploded with laughter at this joke, an unbecoming one, and without much point.
Is it because love is rare as between husband and wife that it is considered unbecoming to relate its joys?
Why the one who is so strict as to forbid others from going even to noodle house or dango shop as unbecoming to instructors, stayed over night at a hotel with a geisha!
I understand through the principal he stopped your going even to noodle houses or dango shops as unbecoming to the dignity of the school, didn't he?
