ill-suited
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Jeremy Schifeling, who leads training sessions at college career centers, says a lot of students make the mistake of picking tech majors they are ill-suited for and drop out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
Judges and jurors are ill-suited to referee such intricate scientific and commercial calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Monetary policy is ill-suited for shocks like this.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
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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