Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divest of qualifications; disqualify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disqualify; to unfit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
disqualify .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hussein Obama is unamerica, unqualify, unprepare and untested to lead this country in the time of crisis.
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You can be as weak, unexperience, unqualify as you can be, with all of that on your side, you don't need to fight, the fairytale campaign will continue
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Obama is not only unqualify in experience…he is unqualify in integrity and soul to be a leader of any nation.
A Rare Day in the Limelight - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Or what again, if God should think fit to smite a man with sores, sickness, and noisome ulcers in his body? yet even these, as offensive as they are, cannot unqualify a
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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Nor can any thing more peculiarly unqualify a man for the office of an apostle or preacher of the gospel, than this degenerous quality: for it makes him unable to look a bold sinner in the face, to assert a disgusted truth, or to own his commission, when power and interest shall frown him into silence and mean compliances.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Lazarus's poverty did not unqualify him for Abraham's bosom, iii.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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I misremember whether my ancestors came from this part of the world or not; but if they did, sir, my habits and profession entirely unqualify me for their company, I hope.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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By this means they open a gate to folly, and oftentimes render a man so ridiculous, as discredit his virtues and capacities, and unqualify them from doing any good in the world.
Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700
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