unfitted

Example Sentences

• "[…] let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest […]. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same."
• "You have both warm hearts and benevolent feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw you listen to Shakespeare the other night, will think you unfitted as companions?"
• "Society should study reasonable and just ways of discouraging parenthood on the part of those who are seriously unfitted to cope with its responsibilities."
• "His lack of editorial knowledge makes him doubly unfitted for the role for which he is reportedly being groomed."
• "As popularized by Jackie Kennedy, the little nothing, its partisans explain, also aims for the look of unostentatious but expensive elegance that goes beyond mere chic. Most little nothings today are essentially grown-up versions of sleeveless, high-necklined junior dresses, unfitted, but figure-suggesting."
• "In the Eighties, the unfitted suits, flat-cut in the style of traditional kimonos and proposed by Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, formed the baggy blueprint for a decade of men’s designs, and the outfit of choice for a generation of creative directors and male fashion editors."