Unfitly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Unfitly is an adverb meaning In an unfit manner; unsuitably, inappropriately, not fitly.
Meaning
In an unfit manner; unsuitably, inappropriately, not fitly.
Example Sentences
These two sorts of essences, I suppose, may not unfitly be termed, the one the REAL, the other NOMINAL ESSENCE. 16.
He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday.
And in reference to this harmonious interplay of all the human faculties and sensibilities, I may not unfitly apply to Shakespeare's workmanship these choice lines from Wordsworth: "Brisk Youth appeared, the Morn of youth, With freaks of graceful folly,-- Life's temperate Noon, her sober Eve, Her Night not melancholy; Past, present, future, all appeared, In harmony united, Like guests that meet, and some from far, By cordial love invited."
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unfittingly, unsuitably, inaptly, unbefittingly, unproperly, unappositely.
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