ill-suited
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The impressive new complex has at its center a 225-foot-tall tower that is at once ill-suited to its task—housing a museum—and queasily unbecoming for the leader of a republic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
All of it makes them ill-suited for retirement accounts, opponents argue.
From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026
Their part in all of this will come under scrutiny, not least for their remarkable decision to trust the ill-suited Igor Tudor as successor to Thomas Frank.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Meanwhile, the leaders of civil society organizations appear ill-suited to resist such suppression of free speech and, in some cases, seem to embrace it.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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