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Lexicographical Neighbors of

not long
not long for this world
not much cop
not much of anything
not on
not on your life
not on your nelly
not on your tintype
not only
not out
not playing with a full deck
not quite
not really
not right in the head
not so fast
not suitably (current term)
not surprised
not that there's anything wrong with that
not the end of the world
not the sharpest knife in the drawer
not the sharpest knives in the drawer
not to be able to say boo to a goose
not to mention
not to put too fine a point on it
not to say
not touch something with a barge pole
not touch something with a ten foot pole
not traded
not very
not very likely

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Regimental History: The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York State Volunteers by Ezra de Freest Simons (1888)
"... rebels claim that they could not suitably feed their own men, then aggravated was their wrong in prolonging the war. The total number of Confederate ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1904)
"The cases are not In harmony as to where the burden of showing whether the husband had or had not suitably provided for the wife lies, but the weight of ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Not properly ; not suitably. To UNFIT, (tra-fi.O «>• "• To disqualify. UN FITNESS, (un-fit'-nes) ni Want of qualifications ; want of propriety. ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"1913, § 8657), some matters to which its attention was not suitably called, is not ground for reversal. [Ed. Note. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It was not only that he himself suffered, but that his retinue also were not suitably clothed. Charles evidently felt bitterly his humiliation, ..."

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