misbecoming

adjective

Definition of misbecomingnext
as in mismatched

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misbecoming
  1. mismatched
  2. irrelevant
  3. inconsistent
  4. inapplicable
  5. immaterial
  6. extraneous
  7. incompatible
  8. unbecoming
Adjective
  • Sherman sinks his teeth (no pun intended) into the material with gusto, directing the actors at a swift clip to tell the story of a mismatched reporter and doctor who uncover a grim conspiracy of medical experimentation.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Nabi led us across a roundabout to a knot of approximately a dozen men in mismatched camouflage, armed with AK-47s, who were kissing one another’s cheeks.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of mismatched
Adjective
  • Authority figures disproportionately influence decisions, even when their preferences are irrelevant.
    Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • In the box score, the Cincinnati Bengals’ 37-27 victory against the Tennessee Titans will look like a largely irrelevant game between two teams no longer a real factor in the playoff chase (though the Bengals are holding on to the slimmest of hopes).
    Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of irrelevant
Adjective
  • True, Anthony Richardson is wildly inconsistent but he’s got the big arm to burn the Broncos deep as Jameis Winston did before Denver’s bye.
    Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The Premier League this season is inconsistent, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of inconsistent
Adjective
  • These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
    Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of inapplicable
Adjective
  • The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Some might think that is immaterial, as the U.S. is strong enough to have its way.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of immaterial
Adjective
  • For all its credits, the Swift Go 14 still makes Acer’s regular sin of sticking a few too many little pieces of extraneous software onto the machine.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of extraneous
Adjective
  • For too long, kindness and empathy were seen as incompatible with decisive, tough leadership.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • If past is prelude, Trump’s resulting approach will likely be highly disruptive—especially since some of his goals are mutually incompatible.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of incompatible
Adjective
  • There is no denying that Donald Trump has engaged in behavior that is unacceptable and unbecoming of any leader — let alone a president of the United States.
    Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To have lived through an encompassing albeit unbecoming love and have survived it with all the parts of herself intact feels like a triumph.
    Vulture, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022
Definition of unbecoming
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