ill-befitting

Bureaucrats are advised to "print and file" important documents, a cumbersome and wasteful solution ill-befitting an aspiring high-tech hub.

Hong Kong's Blind Spot Nicholas Frisch 2011

“Duties ill-befitting the dignity of my race,” replied the goblin, his voice rougher and less human as he said it.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

"Duties ill-befitting the dignity of my race, " replied the goblin, his voice rougher and less human as he said it.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Othello's "fatal flaw" was perhaps not even an excess of jealous passion ill-befitting an otherwise reasonable man.

The Moor Oppressed? Krome, Sidney 1974

My fears persuade me that, in some unguarded moment, she has forgotten what is due to the rights of hospitality, and used expressions ill-befitting the mysterious character you sustain.

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian Anonymous

George was its life and soul, and now that he was away and exposed to the machinations of enemies who were hungering and thirsting after a share of his riches, a gloom settled down upon the place and enveloped it in an ill-befitting aspect of dreariness.

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

I attempt to correct them, although I do not hope for amendment from the licentiate Legaspi in this matter of money and other very unlawful things, ill-befitting his office and his age, the illegal character of his acts eliciting many complaints which I have received.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

She averted her face from it, lay back in the armchair she had chosen, and rolled a cigarette, while I brought a hassock for the jewelled slippers and the scarlet silken ankles, so ill-befitting one of her age.

Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

When Ederyn saw the royal cavalcade, he shrunk back into the wayside bushes, so ill-befitting did it seem that he should come before the king in tattered garments, with blood upon his hands where the sharp rocks had cut, and with foul dungeon stains.

The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1897

He looked rather dissolute; his smart-looking mustache gave him an air ill-befitting the feelings of a newly-orphaned son, and his mourning was more evident in discomfort than in grief.

Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892