misbecomes

“Peace thou!” said Toxartis, “or I will do a deed that misbecomes a soldier, and rid the world of a prating old man.”

Count Robert of Paris 2008

She is lively and obliging: she is young; not more than twenty; yet looks rather younger, by reason of a country bloom, which, however, misbecomes her not; and gives a modesty to her first appearance, that prepossesses one in her favour.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

For I am far from thinking that a prudent regard to worldly interest misbecomes the character of a good clergyman; and I wish all such were set above the world, for their own sakes, as well as for the sakes of their hearers; since independency gives a man respect, besides the power of doing good, which will enhance that respect, and of consequence, give greater efficacy to his doctrines.

Pamela 2006

Pushing his way through the other passengers, with a discontented expression upon his genial face that rather misbecomes it, he emerges into the open air, to find that a smart drizzle, unworthy the name of rain, is falling inhospitably upon him.

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Nothing that he does or says misbecomes him: but a good deal that he does not do and say might be added with advantage, in order to give us the portrait of a whole as well as a live man.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

The gardener should be an idler, and have a gross partiality to the kitchen plots: an eager or toilful gardener misbecomes the garden landscape; a tasteful gardener will be ever meddling, will keep the borders raw, and take the bloom off nature.

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

But humanity never misbecomes those of royal blood.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Then it struck her that perhaps all his wonder-working power lay in the knapsack, and she pretended to be very fond of him, and when she had brought him into a good humour she said, -- "Pray lay aside that ugly knapsack; it misbecomes you so much that I feel ashamed of you."

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824

But humanity never misbecomes those of royal blood.

Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

After which, the next consideration immediately subsequent to the being of a thing, is what agrees or disagrees with that thing; what is suitable or unsuitable to it; and from this springs the notion of decency or indecency; that which becomes or misbecomes, and is the same with honestum et turpe.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823