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Unbecomingness

noun
1.
The quality of being unbecoming.





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"Unbecomingness" Quotes from Famous Books



... were a hatchet-faced baby. A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk! Queequeg! —in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake! 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, shook himself all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


Words linked to "Unbecomingness" :   indecorum, becomingness, indecorousness, unbecoming


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