unfit
adjective
not fit; not adapted or suited; unsuitable.
unfitness
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a word derived from
unfit.
Example Sentences
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Not just shame but gross unfitness for serving in a role at a state university.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated, external and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Under the California Probate Code, the most common reasons include breach of trust, insolvency, unfitness and incompetence, hostility or deadlock, excessive and/or disqualification where the trustee becomes legally barred from serving.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
He is so patently, obviously unfit it’s difficult to come up with some fresh way of describing his unfitness.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024
Jack bit her lips, put her hand to her face to feel the sudden flush which had suffused it at the thought of her own unfitness for so great a responsibility.
From The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire by Margaret Vandercook
