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Definition of Misbecome
1. v. t. Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
Definition of Misbecome
1. Verb. To be unsuitable, unbefitting, or maladapted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misbecome
1. [v -CAME, -COMING, -COMES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misbecome
Literary usage of Misbecome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the by Tryon Edwards (1908)
"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome
a monarch. ... misbecome ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Why do you turn away, and weep so fast, And utter tilings that misbecome your
... [Verbal n. of misbecome, v.] An improper act; indecorous conduct. [Rare. ..."
3. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways by William Outram Tristram (1893)
"gibility would not misbecome the tomb of Cheops, it may occur to us that one of
the greatest of our poets is unrepresented in our pedantic Pantheon. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"... and it does not misbecome an advocate, nor does it misbecome a subject of this
country to say, that it is of the utmost importance to every individual ..."
5. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq.: With Memoirs of His Life and by Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd Sheffield (1837)
"Poetry seems equally to misbecome the subject and the genius of the author.
The narrative of a voyage comes very properly from a philosopher, а шал of parts ..."
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