unfitted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap.
From Time Magazine Archive
His case is peculiar, stern fate has been hard, His body unfitted for labours of men, His mind, with the sensitive make of the bard, Unfitted for aught, but the work of the pen.
From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)
John Bradbury, the Muse shall fill my strain To sing thy praises; thou hadst spent thy time Not idly, nor hadst lived thy life in vain, Unfitted for the guerdon of my rhyme.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
Unfitted as thou wert for the task, thou didst not hold the scales evenly.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
While the ostrich was talking, in tones hoarse and wheezy, His feet, from their pecking still sore, grew uneasy; Unfitted by nature to talk, they, by grace, In eloquent silence presented their case.
From The Story of an Ostrich An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme. by Isaacs, Judd
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