LekhoriLekhoriNot flattering, attractive or appropriate.
She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.
Not in keeping with the expected standards of one's position.
He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
present participle and gerund of unbecome
The process by which something unbecomes.
By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]
From un- + becoming. Compare Middle English unbicomelich (“unbecoming”). Equal to unbecome + -ing
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