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ill-suited

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But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

Companies are discovering the untapped brainpower of a group long thought ill suited to the office: adults on the autism spectrum.

Secretly, however, Marie pines for Emil Bergson, a dreamer and intellect who seems ill-suited to life on a farm.

But our instant-response culture and media are ill-suited to manage foreign-policy crises.

My larger objection is that directly addressing schoolchildren on most matters is a role for which every president is ill-suited.

Unfortunately, however, the minister whom the reformed had obtained was ill-suited to these troublous times.

The gay greetings of old friends, the pleasant babble in the breakfast room ill suited his reflective mood.

Bulrush millet, another native crop, was ill suited to Aaron's well-drained fields.

The cultivated and liberal mind of Tusser seems to have been ill-suited to his fortune, and to his vocation.

But in consequence of his ambition and usurpations, his reception at home was ill-suited to the character of his heroic deeds.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-suited, such as: bad form, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-timed, improper, and inappropriate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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