unready

Example Sentences

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The Cambodian government seems unready to address questions about the leak.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025

Alas, the root of the issue was some light questioning from Judge Maryellen Noreika that revealed a plea deal unready for prime time.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2023

They are children, as of yet unready to meet the demands of a relationship or a war, but they embrace the latter to deny the former.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

It is an increasingly popular way to smooth the awkward high-school-to-college transition that has inflicted on unready teenagers such annoyances as scary SAT tests and slick college brochures.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2022

And my men, for whom I am no more than a standard or a talisman, are the knights who were leaders—the rich defending their possessions, the powerful unready to let it slip.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White