misbecoming

Verb

misbecome (third-person singular simple present misbecomes, present participle misbecoming, simple past misbecame, past participle misbecome)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To be unsuitable for; not to befit.
   • It misbecame him to appear in the character of a mediator of peace, in a quarrel, the futility of which he had presumed to judge and hastily condemn.1802, John Duncan, An appendix to seasonable hints to the younger part of the Clergy of the Church of England