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Meanings of unsuited in English

Not easy to combine harmoniously.

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Examples for "incompatible"
1
The incompatible member of the family-theone James wasn't able to control.
The notorious scoundrel
2
A similar number recommended seats that were incompatible with the tester's car.
The Guardian
3
The bank's new strategy shows the two goals may have been incompatible.
Reuters
4
This is incompatible with the political universalisation of a secularist world view.
The Irish Times
5
Property is incompatible with political and civil equality; then property is impossible.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
1
They often spoke of the pathetic loneliness of this good-looking, kindly, mismated woman.
In the Days of Poor Richard
2
Following the hungry question of her mismated eyes, the doctor gravely nodded his head.
Destiny
3
How crooked were all the mismated planets at my birth!
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
4
The two marvelous and mismated eyes looked at them all and did not see them.
Destiny
5
Charity could not help pondering the situation, for she saw that Jim was hopelessly mismated.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
1
Even these charms faded under the sufferings attendant on an ill-sorted match.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
2
It is pity people are so ill-sorted.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
3
They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.
Cheerful—By Request
4
It seems a great pity that the principle of personal freedom should be responsible for so many ill-shaped and ill-sorted physical incompetents.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
5
There was plenty enough, but the dishes were ill-sorted; whole pyramids of sweetmeats, for boys and women; but little of solid meat, for men.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 / With Life, Critica...
Usage of unsuited in English
1
But the moment was unsuited for further endeavour in the New World.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
2
Erlendur had always found Níels lazy and absolutely unsuited for detective work.
The draining lake
3
Carter a fine, intelligent, dedicated man, but unsuited to lead the nation.
The new yorker
4
I saw an unsuited figure stalking towards me, hand gun flung out.
Broken angels
5
Casks of wood are unsuited for African travel; small beetles perforate them.
Ismailia
6
Afterwards they started shunting me into jobs for which I was unsuited.
The Guardian
7
I agree that many of TDs are unsuited to running the country.
The Irish Times
8
But her greatest talents make her unsuited for it in some ways.
Small favor
9
It is a job the undoubtedly talented midfielder is arguably unsuited to.
The Guardian
10
The open hall is quite unsuited to a conversation of this nature.
The Chief Legatee
11
These industries are by their very nature unsuited to the competitive system.
Problems in American Democracy
12
The first two & top five floors are unsuited to the device.
The new yorker
13
His wife was utterly unsuited to his tastes, and finally deserted him.
The Friendships of Women
14
Our temperaments were unsuited, we looked out on life from different windows.
The Moon out of Reach
15
The right-hand side mode of progress has been found unsuited to modern needs.
The Irish Times
16
The Confederation had proven unsuited to the needs of the country.
The Story of Commodore John Barry
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