单词 | to be missuited |
释义 | > as lemmasto be missuited transitive. To suit badly, be ill-suiting. Also in passive, as to be missuited (to something). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > not to suit [verb (transitive)] beseema1225 missuita1618 unbecome1628 a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn St. Lewis 588 in Wks. (1880) II. 235 That Robe of Power, which those doth much mis-suit, Who have not on rare Vertue's richest Suit. 1860 E. B. Browning Napoleon III in Italy xviii, in Poems before Congress He will not swagger nor boast Of his country's meeds, in a tone Missuiting a great man most If such should speak of his own. 1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge in Dramatis Personæ Each..Is blind to what missuits him. 1984 William & Mary Q. 41 55 Such terms as ‘popular’ and ‘dominant’ illuminate the texts but seem missuited to the general situation. < as lemmas |
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