Sentence examples for unbefitting from inspiring English sources

The word "unbefitting" is correct and can be used in written English
It means something is not appropriate or suitable for a particular situation. For example: His behavior was unbefitting of a journalist and did not meet the standards of professionalism expected of him.

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unbefitting

adjective

Not befitting; not appropriate to.

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To add to the foolishness, Slovakia's state television (supposedly coincidentally) broadcast an alarmist documentary about Scientology three days before the vote.Grigorij Mesežnikov, president of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava, called the election campaign "unbefitting a democracy".

Brendan Rodgers came under criticism for resting some players - Steven Gerrard, Raheem Sterling, Mario Balotelli - against Real Madrid on Tuesday, with the BBC's Gary Lineker tweeting that the under-strength side was "unbefitting of a club of Liverpool's stature".

Part of the trouble was that they were irritated by Ebsworth's lifelong habit of coming out with excruciatingly awful puns, which Durham academia thought unbefitting in their vice chancellor.

The Liverpool manager came under sharp criticism from Gary Lineker in particular with the BBC pundit tweeting that the side – missing seven fit first team regulars – was "unbefitting of a club of Liverpool's stature".

Sad because, according to the F.B.I. affidavit, the information requested by the Russian government ("Moscow Center," as it's called) is so mundane, and some of it merely trade secrets, unbefitting a mighty state and redolent too of the central planning that once turned the U.S.S.R. into an economic basket case.

Last summer, Kutcher was accused of having sex with an aspiring actress in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel — an activity widely seen as unbefitting a "real man" who did not exploit women — and Moore filed for divorce.

"We consider Ms. Pillay's statement as unbefitting to her status as high commissioner and attempts to publicly accuse the leaders of the Russian state of failing to carry out some kinds of 'promises' — as outside the framework of diplomatic ethics," the ministry said in a statement.

He called the prosecutor's actions "particularly egregious" misconduct that was "wholly unbefitting a U.S. attorney".

"It is a record unbefitting Asia's oldest democracy, and should be addressed immediately," Joel Simon, the committee's executive director, wrote in a letter this month to the country's incoming president, Benigno S. Aquino III.

But what we can perhaps be persuaded to feel, viscerally, is that industrial fishing as it is practiced today against the bluefin and indeed against all the world's great fish, the very tigers and lions of our era, is an act unbefitting our sentience.

The main complaint was that the sections were unbefitting the serious-minded newspaper that had published the Pentagon Papers and pioneered formats like the Op-Ed page, created in 1970 as a forum for outside voices.

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