unsuitableness

Example Sentences

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She surrounded herself with old brocades, with modern bronzes, with Smyrna rugs--an irregular confusion of picturesque treasures whose unsuitableness justified the temporary look of the whole establishment.

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip

The consequence was, that her whole life, owing to—to—the unsuitableness of your tempers, and the strongly-contrasted materials which formed your characters, was one of almost unexampled suffering and sorrow.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

That which makes all other things disproportioned to the soul of man, to give it this joy, is the extreme unsuitableness between them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Let us imagine a Dean and Chapter so deeply impressed by the unsuitableness of the Crown's nominee that they refuse to elect him.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

There was also King's testimony about words over Amy, though Darcy contended that this talk was nothing more than his relative had indulged in before regarding the unsuitableness of the match.

From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Steele, Chester K.