unready

Better let them think him unready; then perhaps they would let him get the lead.

He is as unready in the thought needed for these as he is in the use of his senses.

It was unready for war, but war was the only solvent of intolerable troubles.

“I reckon they should be unready to confess the same,” saith she.

Probably he found her coy, unready to acknowledge his demands on her attention.

It was said that America was unready, and so it was—in a way.

She is so unready; poor thing—unless her sufferings will stand instead.

Quick as a flash, and all unready, he was submerged in the water beneath.

He had said it before he remembered how unready he must perforce be with details.

We have a writ from thelred the Unready, and a remarkable writ it is.