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
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
Unfitted for housekeeping both by temperament and inclination, and having none of the responsibility of it, I could look on and laugh.
From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie
Unfitted to some extent for the purposes of commerce by the sand-bar at its mouth, see how this river was devoted from the first to the service of manufactures.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
Unfitted for the life he now leads . . . waste of time.
From Michael by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
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