unready
Example Sentences
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The Cambodian government seems unready to address questions about the leak.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025
Alas, the root of the issue was some light questioning from Judge Maryellen Noreika that revealed a plea deal unready for prime time.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
They are children, as of yet unready to meet the demands of a relationship or a war, but they embrace the latter to deny the former.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
It was poorly trained, poorly led and largely unready when it was thrown into the fighting in Italy in 1944 and ’45, historians have said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2022
And my men, for whom I am no more than a standard or a talisman, are the knights who were leaders—the rich defending their possessions, the powerful unready to let it slip.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
