UNBESEEMING Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

unbeseeming

adjective

Definition of unbeseeming

as in inappropriate

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Adjective

When the employee told Gonzalez the questions were inappropriate, Gonzalez took a drink of beer and intentionally spat it onto the worker's arm.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
According to the lawsuit, this arrangement is inappropriate because immigration detention is civil, not criminal.

— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of inappropriate

Adjective

Cambridge Analytica, which was a political consulting firm, allegedly accessed the information of 87 million Facebook users in improper fashion.

— Julia Boorstin, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
He was signed to the practice squad last week, creating a huge uproar because of past allegations of improper behavior by Tucker from 16 massage therapists in Baltimore-area spas.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of improper

Adjective

In Russia, Rodnyansky, his producer, had protected him from the fraught and unseemly aspects of securing financing.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
It was also realized that having festive crowds enjoying the sight of a someone being killed was unseemly, exposing the base instincts that lie within us.

— Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unseemly

Adjective

Its presence is incongruous and inescapable, shocks of green in a sea of clay.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026
While this may seem incongruous with some of his emotional displays on the field, coaches with different backgrounds and specialties have consistently described Crow-Armstrong as approachable and teachable.

— Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of incongruous

Adjective

The Bears have said previously that they are focused on pursuing a $2 billion stadium across the state line in Hammond or in suburban Arlington Heights, and that the Rate Field site was unsuitable, citing in part its limited size.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
The combination of leverage, daily resets, volatility, financing costs and higher expense ratios can make these products unsuitable as long-term buy-and-hold investments.

— Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of unsuitable

Adjective

But Dwyer suggests that, in practice, the medical model is often simply inapplicable to people with high support needs.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Aug. 2026
False endorsement and misappropriation, FanDuel could insist, are inapplicable to a personalized video setting where the video’s talent voluntarily assents in exchange for compensation.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of inapplicable

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
His usual formula—high energy, frolicsome, all fast cuts—seemed unfitting.

— Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2022

Definition of unfitting

Adjective

Pilots who feel fatigued or unfit to fly must report it and be removed from duty by the airline, according to the FAA.

— Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
There is exactly no evidence that trans identity makes individuals unfit to serve, and this move is a clear escalation in the administration’s attempts to simply remove trans people from American life.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of unfit

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