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Unqualified   /ənkwˈɑlɪfˌaɪd/   Listen
Unqualified

adjective
1.
Not limited or restricted.
2.
Not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training.
3.
Legally not qualified or sufficient.  Synonym: incompetent.  "Incompetent witnesses"
4.
Having no right or entitlement.  Synonym: unentitled.






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"Unqualified" Quotes from Famous Books



... his religious awakening at that time was unusually deep; his awe of the Divine government and his sense of sin profound; his acknowledgment of God's justice and general sovereignty unreserved; and his trust in Christ for justification free and unqualified. That sheet-anchor saved him. It brought him up, subsequently, in the hour of danger. When the fitful and rough winds of the spirit of the power of the air beat upon him, and the swelling waters went over his soul, it dragged, but it held. It was cast within the veil. That New Testament ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

... through factiousness and provincial shortsightedness, the Canadian assembly rejected a scheme for providing an adequate militia, and left a situation quite impossible from the military point of view. Instantly a storm of criticism broke over the heads of the colonies, so bitter and unqualified that there are those who believe that to this day the mutual relations of Britain and Canada have never quite recovered their old sincerity.[62] A member of the Canadian parliament, who was travelling ...
— British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government - 1839-1854 • J. L. Morison

... mainly because Dante chanced to meet him in purgatory. Here was the castle—there is nothing of it now—where the thirteenth-century troubadour was born whom Petrarch described as 'Il grande maestro d'amore,' and whom Dante made Guido speak of as a poet in these words of unqualified praise: ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... surely the face that looked out that night was as the face of an angel. In all the pouring moonbeams that filled the air, she could see nothing but the flood of God's goodness on a dark world. And her heart that night had nothing but an unbounded and unqualified thanksgiving for all the "gentle discipline" they had felt for every sorrow, and weariness, and disappointment; except, besides, the prayer, almost too deep to be put into words, that its due and hoped-for fruit might ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell

... impracticable schemes before the unscrupulous can take them. The only hope for such men is to learn their limitations; to learn that, even though they may be ambitious for commercial success, they are utterly unqualified for it; that, although they may wish to do something in the way of production or selling, they have neither talent, courage, secretiveness, persistence, nor other qualities necessary for a success in these lines. They ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb


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