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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
behoove .
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Examples
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They demolished the Old Dutch Mustard factory to build 80 Met said it "behooved" him to tear down what was one of Wiliamsburg's most charming surviving old industrial buildings.
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Flatau said it would have "behooved" Windsor government to consult CDOT before giving the approval to waive the height variance on the wall.
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Flatau said it would have "behooved" Windsor government to consult CDOT before giving the approval to waive the height variance on the wall.
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He told Coppolino that it "behooved" him to be sparing when he submits classified materials.
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He told Coppolino that it "behooved" him to be sparing when he submits classified materials.
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Coulter did not feel "behooved": "I think it's just the reverse.
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Where once guides to modern behavior stressed how vulgar it was to smoke, when ladies took up the habit, it behooved these arbiters of social instruction to catch up with the times.
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He had made a deliberate effort to put the entire meteoric episode out of mind — reminiscing about past passions ill behooved a married man, after all.
Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Where once guides to modern behavior stressed how vulgar it was to smoke, when ladies took up the habit, it behooved these arbiters of social instruction to catch up with the times.
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In the same way it behooved our Christian brothers to allow us Jews to choose to commemorate the extermination of our people in the manner we saw fit, it likewise behooves our Islamic brothers and sisters to approach the families of those who died on 9/11 and ask them how they wish the site to be commemorated.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Is a Giant Mosque at Ground Zero Justified? 2010
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