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Befittingly   Listen
adverb
Befittingly  adv.  In a befitting manner; suitably.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Befittingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... procedure it is hard to overestimate, and indeed in an enlightened land it is even difficult of credence. Public opinion should severely condemn all attempts at political interference in the work of the education of the deaf, and those seeking to promote it should be dealt with befittingly. Happily, however, such conduct seems now on the decline in the schools, and it may earnestly be hoped that the end is ...
— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best

... herself and the remainder of the family, I hurried on to Washington and found the others quartered at a prominent hotel. A less pretentious one would have suited me, but then a United States senator must befittingly entertain his friends. New men had succeeded to the War and Interior departments, and I was properly introduced to each as the Texas partner of the firm of Hunter, Anthony & Co. Within a week, several little dinners were given ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams



Words linked to "Befittingly" :   unsuitably, appropriately, inappropriately, fittingly, fitly, befitting, suitably



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