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  • adjective Not customized to fit, generic, off the rack.

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Examples

  • And if I were trying to make a garment with an "unfitted" bodice for myself?

    Prim, proper, perfect, pained - A Dress A Day 2006

  • While not a factor for the occasional "unfitted" design, built-in cabinetry represents the biggest single component in most kitchens, and it's often also the biggest line item in the project budget.

    Berks county news 2010

  • Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • A thousand motives will excited them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010 2010

  • In real life there is no unfitted because the unfitted does not exist and survival is a matter of luck.

    p2pnet and privacy 2009

  • It says she is utterly unfitted to be in charge of criminal law and policing if she is unable to recognise that this self-enrichment is no better than a fraud on the public purse.

    Archive 2009-02-08 2009

  • I am unfitted however for the undertaking to which you amicably invite me & there can be little to regret on the score of my failure to comply with yr. wish since

    Letter 406 2009

  • It says she is utterly unfitted to be in charge of criminal law and policing if she is unable to recognise that this self-enrichment is no better than a fraud on the public purse.

    Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary 2009

  • If not, let these states either have independence at once or, if unfitted for that, be put under international tutelage and guardianship.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • Those who tell us that the logical outcome of the theory of Evolution would be the deliberate extermination, either actively or by neglect, of those unfitted for the struggle of life might just as well tell us that the logical outcome of the law of gravitation is that we ought to be continually falling downstairs.

    How reviewers sometimes tell as much about themselves as about the book - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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