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- adjective Not
fit ;unfit .
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Examples
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But it was a programmatic nonfit, and it didn't work out.
Brad Childress On Acquiring Randy Moss: 'It Was A Poor Decision' AP 2010
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But it was a programmatic nonfit, and it didn't work out.
Brad Childress On Acquiring Randy Moss: 'It Was A Poor Decision' AP 2010
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We may observe here that they had been already furnished with a better description of drink -- "But with regard to the youth in question, there is one thing puzzles me, oh, most prophetical niece, and that is, that you should take it into your head to effect an impossibility, in other words, to make a gentleman of him; _ex quovis ligno nonfit Mercurius_, is a good ould proverb."
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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