unbeseeming

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbeseeming
Adjective
  • Once the encounter was posted online, internet sleuths quickly detected the identity of the duo, and the encounter was deemed particularly inappropriate given Byron is married.
    Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Back then, Trump derided White House events for foreign dignitaries held in tents, saying that was an inappropriate way to entertain them.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • His attorneys are now seeking access to information from prosecutors and from Mangione's insurer, Aetna, arguing the subpoena was improper.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 18 July 2025
  • The county inspector general, in a December 2021 report, found mismanagement in the district and improper payments made to district trustees.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Few modern filmmakers attempt grand-scale, visionary cinema like Coppola’s unseemly opus.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 July 2025
  • Through the years, Welch’s legend has been shaped and the burrs smoothed, the inconsistencies and unseemly bits taken into a particular form, in the same manner that a woodturner takes a roughing gouge to a block of wood to round it before hollowing it out.
    Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • This scuffle has separated the two groups of actors into flip sides of the same coin, where similar strategies are used for incongruous end-goals.
    Maximo Bratter, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2025
  • Multiple organizations sought to represent Japanese and Zainichi hibakusha, reflecting their communities’ incongruous postwar dreams.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Intermittent fasting, for example, may be unsuitable for people with pre-existing conditions or irritable bowel syndrome.
    Desireé Oostland, Vogue, 17 July 2025
  • While effective in commercial spheres, this approach to AI, which often involves a disregard for data privacy, is viewed as unsuitable for Washington.
    Dean DeBiase, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • To qualify, a company must pay union wages or, if union wages are inapplicable, at least the city's minimum wage, which is currently $20.80 per hour, Meyers said.
    Ella McCarthy, Austin American-Statesman, 30 May 2024
  • Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Megan Rapinoe smiling through teary eyes, her emotions clashing as the end of her famed career ambles to an unfitting close.
    Candace Buckner, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • If the Suns didn’t already make clear that the Mavericks are halfway to a humbling and unfitting end to their encouraging season, Phoenix fans underscored the fact Wednesday night as subtly as rolling out a guillotine.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 5 May 2022
Adjective
  • While red flags were posted on nearby sections of the beach, her lawsuit alleges the city should have known the entire area was unfit for swimming.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 21 July 2025
  • Trump's nomination of Adams this month stirred outrage among some of the president's opponents at home who said Adams was unfit for the job.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
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“Unbeseeming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbeseeming. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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