Sentence:  True, it ill <WSD>behoves</WSD> national newspaper columnists and MPs, let alone Prime Ministers, to start pontificating about how men – and hitherto a too tiny handful of women – shouldn't be paid £30,000 a year to risk their lives by going into burning buildings when everybody else is leaving them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To befit, to suit.