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They’ve also mounted their own effort to remove board Chair Juanita Miller, who they say is unfit to lead and ignited the controversy in the first place.

Ben Ali, the prime minister in 1987, himself had assumed the presidency by getting doctors to declare then-President Habib Bourguiba medically unfit to rule.

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Menstruation in 19th-century England was referred to as being “unwell,” and women were thought to be unfit for work, exercise, social activities or intellectual effort during the week or so each month that a period lasted.

When his parents divorced, his dad gained custody and his mom was legally declared unfit to parent as she turned to alcohol while struggling with anxiety and depression.

He is “unfit to continue in his current role,” the statement said of Parros.

Du Pont, 57, was initially declared “actively psychotic” and unfit for trial by a judge, and ordered to a psychiatric hospital.

In 1971, the local council declared it unfit for living, and evicted the occupants.

The panelists then proceed to screen out anyone they deem unfit for marriage.

And really, how can anybody claim that a 25-year-old is unfit to become Miss America?

The 1891 Immigration Act declared certain classes of individuals as unfit to become American citizens.

I always maintain that our women are of immense service to us, but many of them are physically unfit.

To his other iniquities Black Sheep had now added a phenomenal clumsiness—was as unfit to trust in action as he was in word.

But in the organic world there is no such thing as the "fit" or the "unfit," in any higher or moral sense.

But today—after that terrible ordeal, she felt as if life held little for her, that she was now unfit to perform any womanly duty.

Never smoke when the pores are open: they absorb, and you are unfit for decent society.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unfit, such as: ill-equipped, inadequate, inappropriate, unhealthy, unlikely, and unsuitable.

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

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