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Unqualified   /ənkwˈɑlɪfˌaɪd/   Listen
Unqualified

adjective
1.
Not limited or restricted.
2.
Not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training.
3.
Legally not qualified or sufficient.  Synonym: incompetent.  "Incompetent witnesses"
4.
Having no right or entitlement.  Synonym: unentitled.





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... and unqualified defiance of England. No one before had ever trod so roughly on the British lion's tail with impunity. The English-speaking public on both sides of the Atlantic was stunned and amazed. Outside of diplomatic circles ...
— From Isolation to Leadership, Revised - A Review of American Foreign Policy • John Holladay Latane
... of human beings of mature age never much disturbed me. The world was large enough for them and me; and I could contentedly see them turn to their own objects of interest, while I awaited in calm security the unqualified praise of those whose praise alone was valuable ...
— The Doll and Her Friends - or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina • Unknown
... restoration to ancestral dignities. And he was spurned by a certain highly intelligent person who considered it both tedious and ridiculous to play at being emperor of a backyard. And then—I really don't recall what happened. But there was a general and unqualified deuce to pay with no pitch at ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell
... minister of Spain offered an unqualified pledge that the treaty should be ratified by his Sovereign on being made acquainted with the explanations which had been given by this Government, there would have been a strong motive for accepting and submitting it to the Senate for their advice ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 2: James Monroe • James D. Richardson
... refuted, were but the reasoning of British jurists, and the simple application to the circumstances and powers of France of the rule of the war of 1756. Mr. Adams then proceeded to state and reason upon other aggressions of Great Britain on our commerce, and asserted that "between unqualified submission and offensive resistance against the war declared against American commerce by the concurring decrees of all the belligerent powers, the embargo had been adopted; and having the double tendency of promoting peace and preparing for war, in its operation is ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy


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