unmeet

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When she had laid it before him, he cast only one glance at it, so small it was, so meagre of gold thread, so unmeet for a true prince's wearing.

From The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

Rejecting the heavy shoes, as unmeet for waxed floors, and the shinguards, he rolled the rest of the uniform in his slicker and tied it behind his saddle.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

For your intent going to Wittenberg, Wee hold it most unmeet and unconvenient, Being the Joy and halfe heart of your mother.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

I found, however, no unmeet companion for my excursion in his trusty mate John Stewart.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

Biorn said: "A thing unmeet to do, to make the gods wroth with us."

From The Story Of Frithiof The Bold 1875 by Morris, William