ill-suited
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Monetary policy is ill-suited for shocks like this.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Sam’s a 30-something law school dropout reduced to a position he knows he’s inherently ill-suited for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
Facebook was using a mix of copper cables and existing fiber optics, but found both ill-suited to the task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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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