When told in the 1970s that it is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski, he joked that it is only unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

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The Hindu said Italy's refusal to send back Massimilian Latorre and Salvatore Girone "may win the new Italian government brownie points at home but is conduct unbecoming of a responsible nation".

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For many years, as Microsoft grew, Bill Gates eschewed public relations and politics as tawdry activities unbecoming of a pure entrepreneur only to find himself up to his eyeballs in government law suits.

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The noise and dirt of the cars whizzing past might be a little unbecoming, but the Colosseum is not a building to be hidden away in a quiet corner.

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Being caught off guard so easily was very unbecoming for such a seasoned veteran.

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On Leaf Cay, for example, yard-long rock iguanas sun themselves with a languor unbecoming an endangered species.

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Wilkerson was convicted on Nov. 2 by a military panel on charges of abusive sexual contact, aggravated sexual assault and three instances of conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman.

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Classical pianist Lang Lang thumped out "Rhapsody In Blue, " before tenor Alfie Boe segued "O Sole Mio" into "It's Now Or Never, " jiving on the spot for the latter in a matter unbecoming of most opera singers.

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Mr. FIDELL: They added charges of conduct unbecoming an officer under Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and that's a way of putting on the table some of the things that Lieutenant Watada is accused of having said that are problematic - particularly problematic from the military standpoint.

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