unserviceable

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unserviceable englannista suomeksi

1. toimimaton, epäkuntoinen

unserviceable englanniksi

1. Unusable; of no use.

2. 1591, (w), ''A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of ''Açores'', this last Sommer betwixt the ''Reuenge'', one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of ''Spaine, London: William Ponsonbie; Riverside Press, 1902,https://archive.org/details/reportoftruthcon00rale

And that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable.

3. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well). ''Reads'' ‘First demand of him how many horse the duke is strong.’ What say you to that? / (smallcaps). Five or six thousand; but very weak and unserviceable: (..)

4. (RQ:Dekker Dramatic Works)

5. (quote-book) if a Man hath too mean an Opinion of himself, ’twill render him unserviceable both to God and Man.

6. (RQ:Melville Typee)

7. (RQ:Montgomery Anne of Green Gables) I expect she’ll ruin that dress driving over there in the dust and dew with it, and it looks most too thin for these damp nights. Organdy’s the most unserviceable stuff in the world anyhow, and I told Matthew so when he got it.

8. (quote-journal)

(syn)

9. Of machinery, etc.: not working.

10. (quote-journal)|date=25 January 1937|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827235503/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,770545,00.html|passage=During 1936, revealed (w), the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged “unserviceable.”

11. (quote-book)

12. Impractical.