Unfitted
[ʌn'fɪtɪd]
Examples
- The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The ex-queen gives me Idris; Adrian is totally unfitted to succeed to the earldom, and that earldom in my hands becomes a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sensationalism is highly unfitted for this constructive task. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was further unfitted for command, for the reason that his conscience must have troubled him and made him afraid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His health was delicate, and he was lame, unfitted to be a farmer, and his best place seemed to be in his father’s mill. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Well, well, Emily, I don't pretend to interfere with your religious notions; only they seem extremely unfitted for people in that condition. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval: these were old familiar faces; but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Not all the time, too much confinement makes you nervous, and then you are unfitted for everything. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Nicholas