Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being unsuitable; unfitness; incongruity; impropriety.
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- noun The state or quality of being
unsuited orinappropriate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
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Examples
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What would be best advised, then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal to suppress opinions for the newness or the unsuitableness to a customary acceptance, will not be my task to say.
Areopagitica 2007
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What would be best advised, then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal to suppress opinions for the newness or the unsuitableness to a customary acceptance, will not be my task to say.
Areopagitica 2007
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The judge shall consider and determine the suitableness or unsuitableness of age in marriage; he shall make an inspection of the males naked, and of the women naked down to the navel.
Laws 2006
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I mean to say that the argument in prospect is likely to be too much for you, out of your depth and beyond your strength, and I should be afraid that the stream of my questions might create in you who are not in the habit of answering, giddiness and confusion of mind, and hence a feeling of unpleasantness and unsuitableness might arise.
Laws 2006
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Just in case I might be contemplating suing the firm on account of their dodgy staircase, he was assessing the unsuitableness of my shoes.
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Just in case I might be contemplating suing the firm on account of their dodgy staircase, he was assessing the unsuitableness of my shoes.
tripping 2005
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Cowperwood, caught in the drift of circumstance — age, unsuitableness, the flaring counter-attractions of romance and vigor — fairly writhed in pain.
The Titan 2004
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It is even possible that the unsuitableness of the dream had struck the mind of the old man.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Too late he realized its unsuitableness for hand-to-hand combat - the mask blocked his peripheral vision.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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Too late he realized its unsuitableness for hand-to-hand combat - the mask blocked his peripheral vision.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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