unpreparedness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being unprepared, unready, or unfitted; want of preparation.

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  • noun The state or quality of being unprepared.

Etymologies

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From unprepared +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Obama’s poor leadership and unpreparedness is starting to show and is getting traction in the media.

    Source says some Democrats frustrated with health bill 2009

  • But he knew their unpreparedness was a result of negligence and so corrected their thinking with proper instruction and challenged them to fulfill their promise immediately to the best of their ability.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • But he knew their unpreparedness was a result of negligence and so corrected their thinking with proper instruction and challenged them to fulfill their promise immediately to the best of their ability.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • Though the antediluvian world and the cities of the plain were awfully wicked, it is not their wickedness, but their worldliness, their unbelief and indifference to the future, their unpreparedness, that is here held up as a warning.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • All these rants about "unpreparedness" are silly: nobody can be "prepared" to this job.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • All these rants about "unpreparedness" are silly: nobody can be "prepared" to this job.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • But they are evidence of a kind of unpreparedness, a kind of refusal to rise to the occasion of what the Church is trying to represent, and a staunch denial that the minister's body represents, on some level, the gathered body.

    Shout Out To My Polity Homeys: On Modesty PeaceBang 2006

  • Until recently Sir Thomas occupied the portfolio of Minister for the Coordination of Defence, and in the course of our conversation I raised the point of Britain's so described "unpreparedness" and commented on the numerous inferences made since the time of the Munich agreement that Great Britain was hopelessly unready to defend herself from attacks by air.

    The European Checkerboard 1939

  • On the floors of Congress debate raged as to who was responsible for the military inaction -- for the country's "unpreparedness," we should say today -- and as to whether Cameron was honest.

    Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North 1901

  • The same unpreparedness, poor training and authoritarianism of dean Suely Vilela was shown through her incompetence in managing [these] conflicts at the USP.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: The country’s largest university becomes a battlefield 2009

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