(a.) Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(2) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(3) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(4) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(5) Our studies suggest that the applicability of the HPRT gene probe strategy may be limited by (1) the low frequency of informative cases and (2) potential inappropriate methylation of the HPRT gene in a proportion of cases.
(6) The death of retinal ganglion cells during development thus seems to serve 2 purposes: It provides for the quantitative matching of the ganglion cell population to the needs of its central projection fields, and, at the same time, it serves to selectively eliminate those cells whose axons project to inappropriate targets or to inappropriate regions within the correct target fields.
(7) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(8) In iron-overloaded patients with primary haemochromatosis, there was inappropriately high uptake of iron by the biopsy specimens.
(9) These changes in association with a total peripheral resistance considered inappropriately normal, are the main hemodynamic characteristics of obesity-related hypertension.
(10) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(11) Anergy is a crude measure of host resistance which may be due to malnutrition, but is probably more often due to inappropriate host responses to surgery and injury.
(12) Emergency indications to operate have become exceptional since the temporary control of inappropriate secretions by pharmacologic agents is available.
(13) And yes, some people on the internet found this inappropriate.
(14) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(15) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
(16) The use of STA as a method for determining SMU tension in the human masseter muscle appears to be highly task-dependent and in the presence of co-activation may be inappropriate.
(17) A conclusion was made of inappropriateness of the use of iron combined with other preparations in view of numerous cases of side-effects and danger of the development of siderosis of internal organs as a result of erroneous drug administration.
(18) Already in 2014, Proofpoint found a 650% increase in social media spam compared to 2013, and 99% of malicious URLs in inappropriate content led to malware installation or credential phishing sites,” explains the company.
(19) The force added that it did not happen “inappropriately”.
(20) Forty-six percent of 962 EID were observed to be employed inappropriately.
Unfit
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(a.) Not fit; unsuitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(2) In unfit patients with advanced disease, palliation from the use of radiotherapy and Celestin tube insertion were poor.
(3) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(4) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
(5) There were no significant differences between fit and unfit dogs for post exercise plasma concentrations of aspartate aminotransferase, white blood cell count or total protein, although the unfit dogs showed a tendency towards higher values.
(6) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
(7) He was later ruled unfit to stand trial on physical and mental grounds.
(8) Extra-anatomic bypass grafting has been used as treatment for patients with aorto-iliac disease who were considered unfit for aortic surgery.
(9) Our findings suggest that for patients with stage I endometrial cancer who are unfit for surgery, intracavitary low-dose-rate radiation therapy alone is an effective alternative treatment with a low risk of complications.
(10) It’s extraordinary that you can continue to make law when you are unfit to face it.
(11) It is a simple and effective procedure with minimal complications, and it is especially recommended for those patients who are medically unfit for general anaesthesia.
(12) There were 10 deaths within a month of operation (0.9%), 9 of these patients having been exceptionally old and unfit.
(13) Only 69.3% were declared fit and the overall unfit rate was 22.1%.
(14) He was freed by Jack Straw, the home secretary, on the grounds that medical experts said he was unfit to stand trial.
(15) This could happen if the official receiver thinks that your conduct has been 'unfit'.
(16) A motion brought by Britain’s Ukip, France’s Front National, and Italy’s 5 Star movement described Juncker as unfit to lead the EU executive because of his track record in Luxembourg.
(17) Variant 2 is limited to high 4-PA concentrations, being unfit in low ones for overestimating the data.
(18) In 1949 it was estimated that around 2 million homes were unfit for human habitation, too expensive to repair and earmarked for demolition.
(19) Universities are badly failing students with unfit teaching and old-fashioned methods and will have to radically modernise lectures and facilities if they want to raise fees, according to the Conservatives' spokesman on higher education.
(20) One man had his doctor's testimony, affirming he had a deformed ankle, thrown out, only to be dismissed as unfit from the army two years later, over the same ankle.