becomingly

Example Sentences

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But that "view is becomingly increasingly difficult to defend," he said last week after data showed weekly new claims for unemployment benefits hit their lowest level since February.

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2023

“I wasn’t behaving very becomingly in those days,” she said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

So in a way she’s playing herself, most becomingly.

From Time • Feb. 21, 2012

"She is terribly thin, almost a wraith, and should be gowned more becomingly."

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2010

And when Constantia herself becomes a matron of this plantation she will not deport herself becomingly if she spend her maidenhood fostering vanity in others.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames