What is "unsuitable"

Usage examples of "unsuitable".

The government of a mighty empire may assuredly suffice to occupy the time, and the abilities, of a mortal: yet the diligent prince, without aspiring to the unsuitable reputation of profound learning, always reserved some moments of his leisure for the instructive amusement of reading.

It was most unsuitable, most undignified, that you and I should both write.

To take one obvious example, an aelurophobe would be most unsuitable to represent the Empire among a felinoid people.

These ordinary brick clays vary considerably in composition, and many clays, as they are found in nature, are unsuitable for brickmaking without the addition of some other kind of clay or sand.

The monopoly of the Special Forces and the CIA on counterinsurgent capabilities, moreover, suggests a still-extant doctrinal positon that defines these forms of conflict as unsuitable for regular forces.

The line was a 36 Cuttyhunk, wholly unsuitable to the rest of the tackle.

Throughout the war, 25 to 30 percent of the dogs received at Camp Lejeune were returned because they were unsuitable, and even more would be sent home after the greater test of combat where the lives of the handler, the dog, and the Marines with them depended on an intelligent dog that never lost its cool under any kind of fire.

By then, dogs that were gun-shy or showed other behavioral traits that made them unsuitable for combat had already been weeded out.

He thought of Bruno, who that morning had defiled the Greek temple with his opinion of eurythmics, and Frank, who was on his fifth psychoanalyst and had seizures in unsuitable places when his will was crossed.

Clothes were my own chief care, for, freely as I had purged it at Flensburg, my wardrobe was still very unsuitable, and I had already irretrievably damaged two faultless pairs of white flannels.

Although Glagolitic is a formal script reserved chiefly for religious writing and unsuitable for widespread use, these monuments are nevertheless the beginning of vernacular literacy and literature among the Croats.

It had no pockets or pouches for a knife, its pendant topazes unsuitable, its goldwork too soft.

He chided Krubi, and even threatened to cast her off for making the mistake of choosing an unsuitable spot.

But they put out across the mud flats and sandbars of that unsuitable harbor just before midnight and turned to follow a stiff northeasterly breeze, just right for sailing down the coast.

He bought himself a slightly underripe orange obviously imported, as the Amramionic climate was clearly unsuitable for orangesand headed for the nearest inn, hoping that the fantasies he had had about life along the highway might yet come true, at least in part.