as in unfit
lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job
a restless free spirit, he was temperamentally unfitted for a desk job
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Recent Examples of unfitted
The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.
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Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfitted
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The head of the ruling People Power Party turned course from Thursday in announcing that the president is unfit to lead the country.Joohee Cho, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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The team used a P.E. locker room at the stadium since the normal visitors locker room has been unfit for use recently due to a sewage issue, according to MCSD public information officer Matt Jenkins.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2024
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The case was suspended earlier this year because the aging McCarrick was deemed incompetent to stand for trial.Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
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Trump's nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is saying that women are incompetent and that their presence in the military causes love triangles and drama.Tonya Mosley, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
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This isn’t to say that Leith and Hollywood are incapable of doing their job because of their age.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
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This rhetoric continues conservatives’ history of weaponizing research showing that trans people are more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than cis people in order to baselessly argue that trans youth — and autistic people — are incapable of making their own decisions about their healthcare care.Abby Monteil, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Unfitted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfitted. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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