unadapted

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Black Adam If I’ve got this right, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dips his toe into the dwindling stocks of unadapted superhero characters to play one of DC’s least-known baddies, the primary antagonist of Shazam!

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2017

Into the Woods director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt will steer the project, which draws on as-yet unadapted stories from P.L.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2015

Hazel was reluctant to see the specially adapted house unadapted again, although the special adaptation had seemed principally to consist of putting a bed in the living room.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2011

It was an absurd arrangement in peace-time, and one that was wholly unadapted to the conditions of a great war.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

We come, shoe-strings dragging, skirts impeding, wind disheveling, holding on to inappropriate head-gear, feathers awry, victims of old-time convictions, unadapted to modern conditions, amateur marchers, poorly uniformed—but here we come—just count us—here we come!

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins