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Example sentences for "unfitting"

Lexicographically close words:
unfit; unfitly; unfitness; unfits; unfitted; unfix; unfixed; unflagging; unflattering; unflecked
  1. It is not for the author to endorse the order adopted, but he hazards the opinion that the readers will find the portrait of Rashi no unfitting companion-piece even to that of the author of the Moreh.

  2. Love is hate, hate is love in the end; hatred of the unfitting is love of the fitting, the love of this the hatred of that.

  3. It seemed to us unfitting that this work, struggling upwards to the light, against the envy of oppressing darkness, should be suffered to perish and be lost.

  4. It seems very unfitting that I should have this patronage, yet I felt that I ought not to let it be used by some one else instead of me.

  5. It would be altogether unfitting now to explain that she had not wished her uncle to invite Will Ladislaw.

  6. It was equally unfitting to cast in his teeth the infirmity of his blindness: for it was common for a loss of this kind to accompany such a time of life as his, and it seemed a calamity fitter for sympathy than for taunts.

  7. Thus it would not be unfitting for the fruit of the mission to fall to the ambassador.

  8. Could any subject, in correspondence with herself, be more unfitting or more futile?

  9. All through he resented the sacrifice of a being so noble, true, and tender to a love, in his eyes, so unfitting and derogatory.

  10. Unconsciously he had fallen into a mode of life and a habit of thought which were unfitting him for a politician's career.

  11. He spent many hours upon problems which were unconsciously unfitting him for partisan success.

  12. It had to her simply been unfitting that there should be close familiarity between the two.

  13. This is especially unfitting as regards the body, for the body depends on the soul, and not the soul on the body.

  14. Nor it is unfitting to us the term "image" from one point of view and from another the term "likeness.

  15. Therefore, at least before sin, it was unfitting for man to make use of his mastership.

  16. Therefore it would have been unfitting for the soul to be created without the body.

  17. Further, it is unfitting that elements hostile to one another should be brought under the mastership of one.

  18. Nor is this unfitting in any exalted creature; because the intellectual creature was so made by God, that it lies within its own will to act for its end.

  19. So there is nothing unfitting in an angel being moved to act in so far as such natural inclination is implanted in him by the Author of his nature.

  20. Therefore, since the Son proceeds as the word of the intellect, it seems unfitting for Him to be sent invisibly.

  21. He therefore changed his mind and said more gently: "Your sentence is unfitting and incorrect, for your three qualities are not there.

  22. You perhaps have an equal faith that the shadow of the British flag will be over the wilderness, but it would be most unfitting for you and me to quarrel about it now.

  23. Whatever you say will be undutiful,” he replied at last, “and unfitting for a father’s ear to hear.

  24. Esmond had the prejudices that occasionally characterize men of his station, and it seemed to him distinctly unfitting that the Gold Commissioner's daughter should patronize, as he expressed it, a placer miner.

  25. It seemed to him most unfitting that the harsh voices of his companions, the clatter of hoofs, and the doleful tooting of the cornet, should jar upon it.

  26. It is accordingly not unfitting that a consideration of their bas-reliefs should precede a treatment of their works in the round.

  27. She mocked at the homely custom of the Christmas tree, calling it unfitting for a grand seigneur's household to indulge in such old-fashioned peasant-like rejoicings.

  28. Directly to address a serving-man or maid was deemed incorrect, for it would have betokened an unfitting equality.

  29. Since Wilhelmine left Urach, he averred, he had been treated in a manner all unfitting for an Oberhofmarshall, and the head of the noble family of Grävenitz.

  30. And being wives not seldom of men as talented, it is deplorable that warp of culture, unfitting them for motherhood, should have left such to waste their powers and aspirations in beating the thin air merely of Utopian propaganda.

  31. Or is it the case of some passion, hopeless, unfitting to his rank, perhaps?

  32. Now, trying to do work one is not fit for, implies the more or less unfitting oneself to do, or even to be, the something for which one had facilities.

  33. Now the twain they were lovers true, King Meljanz and maiden Obie--His anger ye needs must rue, 440 Since in wrath he had ridden from her; of sorrow such load she bare That her spirit was moved to anger unfitting a maiden fair.

  34. For 'twas Gurnemanz who bade me of questions rash beware, And from words and ways unfitting a courteous knight forbear.

  35. The waters of death were now surging about the man--if the unfitting metaphor may be allowed.

  36. But the flowers he was carrying were pure; he had asked leave to carry them--and they themselves could not protest, shrink as they might from the unfitting hand.

  37. I must own that there breaks out now and then in his journal something which shows that he himself was not satisfied with many of these juvenile memoranda, as if they showed unfitting occupation and education of a young clergyman.

  38. Indeed they were often compelled to fly from scenes which were most unfitting for them to witness.

  39. It is wholly unfitting and always demoralizing when the priest, the politician, and the journalist turn their attention to private gain.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.