behoove

To befit, to suit.formaltransitive

• It ill behooves my mother to complain.

To be necessary for (someone).formaltransitive

• Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare

To be in the best interest of; to benefit.formaltransitive

• Seeing by the late alliance termed the Rhenish Confederacy, that Louis, King of France, has the most cunning and diabolic intentions on the Imperial Crown, thereby behoving all Germans to unite in a band of brotherhood.

To be needful, meet or becoming.formalintransitive

• Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the try-works.