disqualify
verb (used with object)
to deprive of qualification or fitness; render unfit; incapacitate.
were disqualifying
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past progressiveof disqualify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For Chris Shipley, though, those posts were disqualifying.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
And they also stopped well short of saying that his remarks were so offensive they were disqualifying for a Presidential aspirant.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2016
