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Definition of Unfit
Unfit
To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

Not fit; unsuitable.


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Unfit Quotations
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Ryan White


Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Willie Stargell

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Joseph Heller

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
Peter King

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.
Jamie Redknapp

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander Spooner

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
Charles Ruff

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
James Mcneill Whistler

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Unfit Translations
unfit in French is invalide, inapte
unfit in German is ungeeignet, untauglich
unfit in Italian is inadatto, inabile al lavoro, disadatto
unfit in Latin is indignus
unfit in Spanish is incapaz, echadizo






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