It would behove Tom to look after his own kids instead.
Source: tatoeba (5559634)
Behove
//bɪˈhəʊv//
Synonyms for "behove" (3 found)
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47 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- لاءم verb (to befit, to suit)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дълг е на verb (to befit, to suit)
- подобава verb (to befit, to suit)
Czech
1 entries- být záhodno verb (to be necessary)
Dutch
2 entries- betamen verb (to befit, to suit)
- pаssen verb (to befit, to suit)
Finnish
2 entries- kuulua verb (to be necessary)
- sopia verb (to befit, to suit)
French
2 entries- incomber verb (to be necessary)
- seoir verb (to befit, to suit)
Galician
1 entries- correponder verb (to befit, to suit)
German
4 entries- notwendig sein verb (to be necessary)
- obliegen verb (to befit, to suit)
- schicken verb (to befit, to suit)
- sich geziemen verb (to befit, to suit)
Greek
1 entries- επιβαρύνω verb (to be necessary)
Hungarian
4 entries- dolga verb (to be necessary)
- helyes verb (to befit, to suit)
- helyénvaló verb (to befit, to suit)
- hárul verb (to be necessary)
Italian
1 entries- convenire verb (to be in the best interest of)
Norwegian
2 entries- passe verb (to befit, to suit)
- være nødvendig verb (to be necessary)
Portuguese
1 entries- convir verb (to befit, to suit)
Russian
4 entries- надлежа́ть verb (to befit, to suit)
- надлежа́ть verb (to be necessary)
- подобать verb (to befit, to suit)
- приличествовать verb (to befit, to suit)
Spanish
4 entries- concernir verb (to befit, to suit)
- corresponder verb (to befit, to suit)
- incumbir verb (to befit, to suit)
- incumbir verb (to be necessary)
Swedish
3 entries- bekomma verb (to befit, to suit)
- passa verb (to befit, to suit)
- vara nödvändig verb (to be necessary)
Turkish
2 entries- düşmek verb (to befit, to suit)
- yaraşmak verb (to befit, to suit)
Sample sentences
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"Yet," Jacquette said, toying with the lace of his sleeve, "it does behove you also to save the King, since, if these conspirators are backed by the power and wealth of Spain, there is a chance they may succeed."
Source: tatoeba (11909919)
[W]here therefore public diversions are tolerated, it behoves persons of distinction, with their power and example, to preside over them in such a manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners, or which is too mean or trivial for the entertainment of reasonable creatures.
Source: wiktionary
It behoves every man, who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; it behoves him too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion, by answering questions of faith, which laws have left between God and himself.
Source: wiktionary
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