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  • noun The state or condition of being unsuited.

Etymologies

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unsuited +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • This guy is just plain careless and considering his background he is showing distinct unsuitedness for high office.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Dale Peterson Ad 2010

  • This guy is just plain careless and considering his background he is showing distinct unsuitedness for high office.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Dale Peterson Ad 2010

  • Better execution and care taken with those adjunct stories would help immensely, in my opinion, and might go some to assuage their apparent unsuitedness.

    The immersion model of meaning Steve gaynor 2008

  • And not in the good way -- the way where you KNOW something doesn't suit you, but it makes you so happy that the wearing of it casts a glow, a glamour of happiness over you that cancels out the unsuitedness -- but in the way where I look like somebody's least-liked bridesmaid.

    August 2007 2007

  • Hence, like HPL's other literary-critical essay in the form of a mediocre story, "Celephaïs", it suffers from Lovecraft's essential unsuitedness for writing in the style he thought he should.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • And not in the good way -- the way where you KNOW something doesn't suit you, but it makes you so happy that the wearing of it casts a glow, a glamour of happiness over you that cancels out the unsuitedness -- but in the way where I look like somebody's least-liked bridesmaid.

    You'll Need Fourteen Bakelite Buttons - A Dress A Day 2007

  • Still, no one can fail to recognise its magnificence, and its peculiar unsuitedness to the display of Koons’ cheap and childish artefacts I mean cheap in the moral, not the financial, sense, of course

    Art for the short-sighted « Anglican Samizdat 2009

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