misbecoming

Updated: May 24, 2025

We will now repair to Newgate, it being the place where most of the great men of this history are hastening as fast as possible; and, to confess the truth, it is a castle very far from being an improper or misbecoming habitation for any great man whatever.

Henry Fielding - The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

The best and wisest men in the ranks of the opposition now assumed an office which had hitherto been abandoned to the unprincipled or the hotheaded. Tracts against the government were written in a style not misbecoming statesmen and gentlemen; and even the compositions of the lower and fiercer class of malecontents became somewhat less brutal and less ribald than in the days of the licensers.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4