Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unsuitable; unbecoming; indecorous.
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Examples
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How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex To triumph, like an Amazonian trull Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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1951: Of euery Minutes instance (present now) 1952: Hath put vs in these ill-beseeming Armes:
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And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!] [W: seeming groth] The old reading is probable.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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