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Unfit

adjective

(compar. unfitter; superl. unfittest)

Below the required standards for a purpose. "Unfit for human consumption"

Not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition. "Certified as unfit for army service" , "Drunk and unfit for service"

Physically unsound or diseased. Synonyms: bad, unsound. "A bad heart" , "Bad teeth" , "An unsound limb" , "Unsound teeth"

verb

Make unfit or unsuitable. Synonyms: disqualify, indispose.

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... unfit for immediate use. It must be left to undergo fermentation for at least three whole days. Five days are sufficient to render it fairly drinkable. The longer the period of fermentation, the liner the quality of the resulting liquor, ceteris paribus. When well-cooked ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... all owing to those cursed public schools." The father retired, and the old professor sat down and thought about it; and the result of his thinking did not differ materially from that of the father. It was not, of course, that there was any thing in the studies pursued which had tended to unfit the girl for her duties. It was very possible indeed for the girl to have been a better servant in consequence of her intelligence. There was nothing in English grammar or the multiplication table to produce insubordination ...

— Lessons in Life - A Series of Familiar Essays • Timothy Titcomb

... different travellers to form contrary and perplexing ideas, often with regard to the same tract of country. What appeared to one man a land of pleasant gurgling brooks, flowing through rich pastures, appeared to another as a pitiless desert, unfit for human foot to venture upon. Oxley, who traversed what is now the cream of the agricultural portion of the state of New South Wales, speaks of the main part of it in terms of the bitterest condemnation. His error was of course rather a mistake ...

— The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work • Ernest Favenc

... that the owners of the boat on which I sailed made an enormous profit off those meals served to the soldiers. Certainly the Government would not have given the soldiers such unfit food. The Government is to blame to this extent, however, in not seeing that the ship owners lived up to their contract to feed the men properly. There was a man on board who was supposed to see that the ...

— In the Flash Ranging Service - Observations of an American Soldier During His Service - With the A.E.F. in France • Edward Alva Trueblood

... it is the length of injury that wears us out! What if something should happen to us? None are so unfit to bear poverty ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

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