unfitness

Example Sentences

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The Law Commission said the current rules for defining "unfitness" were formulated in 1836, adding they were now outdated and did not take modern medical understandings of capacity into account.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Under the California Probate Code, the most common reasons include breach of trust, insolvency, unfitness and incompetence, hostility or deadlock, excessive and/or disqualification where the trustee becomes legally barred from serving.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

These statements are presented as evidence of her unfitness for a role requiring impartial application of justice.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

He is so patently, obviously unfit it’s difficult to come up with some fresh way of describing his unfitness.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024

Yet in respect that we have a faculty for enjoying the occasional unfitness of things, it is delightful.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord