unadapted

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Black Adam If I’ve got this right, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dips his toe into the dwindling stocks of unadapted superhero characters to play one of DC’s least-known baddies, the primary antagonist of Shazam!

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2017

Into the Woods director Rob Marshall and producers John DeLuca and Marc Platt will steer the project, which draws on as-yet unadapted stories from P.L.

From Time • Sep. 14, 2015

Hazel was reluctant to see the specially adapted house unadapted again, although the special adaptation had seemed principally to consist of putting a bed in the living room.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2011

He was the most unselfish of human creatures: unadapted to this world, he cared not for himself, and put himself to inconvenience for the sake of his friends.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George

The dull, monotonous, sleepy, heavy system pursued, was quite unadapted to advance such pupils.

From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel