ill-suited
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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But federal judges are ill-suited to make these decisions or serve the role of chief architect and foreman over complex construction projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Its mantra of “data dependence,” for instance, was ill-suited to modern challenges.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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
She left Dauntless not because she was ill-suited for it but because it was safer to be Divergent in Abnegation.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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