befitting

befit | American Dictionary

befit
verb[ T ]
us/bɪˈfɪt/-tt-
to be suitable or right for:
As befits its rural mountain setting, the nine-room inn serves up a huge country breakfast.

Examples of befit

befit
Ideally the ultimate goal of any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem.
Such terms hardly befit a collaborator of empire or a spineless, self-serving monarch.
His retainers offer, for nothing, various services befitting the size of their responsibilities.
On the one hand, it portrayed u superstition as an example of inappropriate behavior not befitting a properly modern individual.
On one level this is inevitable, befitting the selfimage of a party which has always valued leadership and hierarchy.
The answer, befitting such a large multi-authored collection, is 'yes and no'.
The significance of these associations was considered by means of cross-tabulations, as befitted the level of measurement.
We therefore write targeted, benefited, headed but equipped, befitted, wetted.
It is the same for "general classes" and for "ultimate species" (most special types), and befits a phenotype no less than a genotype.
This doesn't seem to befit the way the world depends on a creator and sustainer.
But what shall be his legacy, beyond the witticisms and all the doubting that befit the admirable liberalism of the position?
Wartime surveys usually focused on physical need, destruction and dilapidation, as befitted a nation that had been under enemy bombardment for some years.
It yields relatively low estimates, as we think befits the notion of what is 'strictly necessary'.
Early modern professors would teach, as befit them and the era, from canonical texts in the modern sense: classic or required texts.
First, this shows us that the boys were being taught these subjects more formally, as befitted knowledge which might be professionally useful.
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