(n.) The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
(n.) Something that fits badly, as a garment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(2) "People watched Misfits on their computers then tweeted about the experience, so it did well very quickly.
(3) Cult superhero Meanwhile, Channel 4 has the E4 games portal, and its cross-platform team commissions simple web-based games to accompany shows, like the cult superhero comedy, Misfits.
(4) Filmed in Morocco and Wales, it will feature a young character, Jason, who finds himself in the lost city of Atlantis and is written by Howard Overman, who created E4's Misfits.
(5) These tests are very sensitive, while remaining quite conservative, and discourage the addition of "misfit" sequences to an existing set.
(6) This analysis shows that there is a movement, corresponding to lateral expansion of the rib for an increase in anteroposterior diameter, in which the misfit at the joint is minimized and also that small deviations from this movement involve only very small degrees of misfit at the joint surfaces.
(7) Mario Balotelli is heading back to Liverpool after Milan confirmed they would not keep the misfit striker.
(8) She's not a misfit or a victim, she is intelligent and she doesn't fit into the usual boxes.
(9) Bin Laden was high on that list, but principally as a well-known employer of Islamist misfits.
(10) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(11) To get a fuller appreciation of Jeong's talent head to Community, the NBC sitcom in which he plays Ben Chang, a fortysomething college lecturer eternally trying to win the friendship of the adult misfits under his tutelage.
(12) By combining the results from the headgroup and acyl chains of the phospholipids, it is concluded that the trapped lipids are arranged in a non-bilayer structure, probably caused by a misfitting of the hydrophobic core of the protein and the membrane bilayer.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Kenneth MacMillan was a working-class boy who went to the top of the elite world of ballet, roughing up its conventional decorum with works featuring tortured psyches, damaged sexualities and a string of outsiders and misfits.
(14) Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Suggested by escapeclause and Mel Gravelrash Luxton The classic rebellious misfit teen, Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) from 80s flick Fast Times at Ridgemont High is, as stated by user escapeclause, “surely a deserving number-one screen stoner”.
(15) In turn, the purified antibodies would be able to reversibly induce a slow transition of the enzyme molecule from an active to a substrate-excluding conformation ("induced misfit").
(16) On Monday, in partnership with JustGiving, we at Social Misfits Media have launched Friends with Money – a free guide to fundraising on social media .
(17) Fair play to Ross if she can find a place within the industry for all those square pegs and clever misfits.
(18) This is most apparent if you watch him in a film from before he was in the accident, such as A Place in the Sun, and then watch one of his later, post-accident movies such as The Misfits.
(19) Today, at least, Ayoade is a little more enthusiastic about the film he's here to promote, Submarine , which he wrote and directed, adapting the story of a teenage misfit and his pyromaniac first girlfriend from a 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne .
(20) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
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.