UNSUITABLE, UNSUITABLY
ADJECTIVES
► BUTT-ENDED poorly adapted, unsuitable, or inappropriate for a particular purpose; back-to-front → 1850 obs.
► EXTRAVAGANT varying widely from what is usual or proper; unusual, abnormal, strange; unbecoming, unsuitable → 1650 obs.
► ILL-BECOMING unsuitable, unbecoming → 1864 Eng. dial.
► IMPERTINENT unsuitable, unfitted for → 1594 obs.
► IMPOLITICAL not politic; not according to good policy; unsuitable for the end proposed or desired; inexpedient → 1748 obs.
► INACCOMMODATE unfit; unsuitable → 1620 US
► LIKE A LILY ON A DIRT TIN utterly inappropriate or unsuitable → 1930s Aust. sl.
► LIKE A LILY ON A DUSTBIN utterly inappropriate or unsuitable → 1930s Aust. sl.
► OUT OF PLACE AS BALLS ON A WHALE, AS unsuitable → 1977 US sl.
► OUT OF THE WAY unsuitable, inappropriate, gauche → 1976 Amer. dial.
► STRAVAGANT irrelevant, unsuitable → 1565 obs.
► UNABLE of things: unfit or unsuitable for some purpose → 1390 obs.
► UNAGREEABLE unconformable or unsuitable to; inconsistent or incongruous with → 1550 obs.
► UNBECOMELY unbecoming; unsuitable → c1200 obs.
► UNBEHOVABLE unsuitable; unprofitable → c1440 obs.
► UNFEWSOME awkward, unbecoming, unsuitable → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNFITTEN unfit, unqualified, unsuitable → 1889 Amer. dial.
► UNGAIN awkward, inconvenient, unfavourable, unprofitable; unsuitable → 1790 Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► INAPPOSITELY a1652 – unsuitably, impertinently
► UNCOMELY in an uncomely manner; unsuitably, unbecomingly → c1375 obs.
NOUNS
► IMPERTINENCES something unsuitable, out of place, trivial, or irrational; an incongruity; a trifle, absurdity, piece of folly → 1603
► IMPORTUNITY the condition of being unseasonable or inopportune; unseasonableness; an unsuitable time → 1489 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SPARE PART an incompetent or unsuitable man → World War I Eng. sl.
VERBS
► SUIT LIKE FROST AND FLOWERS to be quite unsuitable → 19C