unfitted

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Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unfitted for such spectacles, or for the mission he had now to perform, M. Courtois became faint.

From The Mystery of Orcival by Gaboriau, Émile

Look, how I clutch it,        Lest it fall, And I a pauper go; Unfitted by an instant's grace For the contented beggar's face I wore an hour ago.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Dickinson, Emily

Of workers, some are strong to fly, While some are weak and small, Unfitted quite, for load or flight, Or outside work at all.

From Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children by Miller, Mrs. E. P.

Unfitted for housekeeping both by temperament and inclination, and having none of the responsibility of it, I could look on and laugh.

From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie