How to Use unqualified in a Sentence

unqualified

adjective
  • It's a judgment that you are unqualified to make.
  • He is clearly unqualified for the job.
  • You have my unqualified support.
  • From there, the top two competitors in each event and the top eight unqualified times from around the state advance to the state meet.
    Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
  • So from the start, your chances of getting it right have been sliced in half and the odds of settling for an unqualified USC alum have soared.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But he's proven to be just as capable a grifter any of his wealthy and unqualified peers.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • And given how abysmally run the country has been over much of the past decade, that’s unqualified good news.
    Ian Bremmer, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In the eyes of many observers at the time, neither film was an unqualified success.
    NBC News, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Cain hopes that the state allows driving schools to take away the option for unqualified students to waive the road test.
    Christian Robles, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2021
  • The Hutchins’ lawsuit alleged that Halls was unqualified to be handling the gun.
    Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Mr Trump’s recent nominees to the board of the Fed have for the most part been unqualified and eccentric.
    The Economist, 12 July 2019
  • Some players saw him as unqualified to coach a team of their caliber, Boronat said.
    Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the legal proceedings, Pan Am, the defendant, had to prove that men were unqualified for the job.
    Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • After just a week of effort, the unqualified answer was: quite a lot.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2020
  • About two-thirds were quickly tossed as unqualified or too far away.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Just hire the best guy for the job instead of fabricating jobs for your unqualified friends.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • More: Karen Spranger: Agent of change or simply unqualified to hold Macomb clerk's job?
    Steven Pepple, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2018
  • That commission deemed Symons unqualified for the bench in spring 2006.
    Michael Todd, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
  • At the onset of the pandemic, the orchestra was in an unqualified good place.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But Kamala Harris thinks membership in the Knights of Columbus makes a man unqualified to be a judge.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Germain Ifedi, who has pretty much been an unqualified bust since the Seahawks drafted him in the first round five years ago, will man the right side.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Disney has suffered a rocky year at the box office, capped by recent bust The Marvels, and could have used an unqualified win.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The last unqualified success was more than 35 years ago, when the Soviet Union was still intact.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
  • Web copy is often the last step, and a lot of businesses outsource it to unqualified freelancers.
    Marc Hardgrove, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The conditions from the last bubble, at least — like homes going to unqualified buyers — aren’t present this time around.
    Mike Rosenberg, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • Yet many American women do not have the unqualified right to vote.
    National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The surgery was an unqualified success, and Rebecca, who had weighed 280 pounds...
    Douglas G. Adler, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2018
  • On all sides there is nothing but unqualified praise for the picture, praise which mounts into a pitch of hysteria.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • And so this is a man who is inordinately unqualified for the position.
    CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Yes, but: Duckworth says other Trump appointees are unfit and unqualified.
    Axios, 24 Nov. 2024

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