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unfittingly

  • a word derived from fitting.
    fitting
    adjective
    suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
  • a word derived from fittingly.
    fittingly
    adverb
    in a way that is fitting.

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The play itself, not unfittingly, is an entertaining spoof of what people in show business will do to get ahead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore the precepts relating to knowledge and understanding are unfittingly set down in the Law.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas

Therefore the latter would seem to be assigned unfittingly.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas

Not unfittingly we may conclude our criticism of his plays with his own description of his art, given in the first prologue to Sapho and Phao.

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

Objection 1: It seems that certain acts of the virtues are unfittingly set down as effects of Baptism, to wit—"incorporation in Christ, enlightenment, and fruitfulness."

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas