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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a poor candidate" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who is not suitable or qualified for a particular position or role. Example: "After reviewing his qualifications and experience, it was clear that he was a poor candidate for the job."
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Cambodia seems a poor candidate for a safe-sex campaign.
But it does not necessarily make him a poor candidate.
Yes, Alabama's outcome was partly because Roy Moore was a poor candidate with excessive baggage.
Yet the agency seems like a poor candidate to strike this balance.
Because of his age, he was a poor candidate for a transplant.
John McCain, he reckons, was a poor candidate, "and this time we have an excellent one.
The state's attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, said today that the case was "a poor candidate" for Supreme Court review.
Patients may require a continent urinary diversion (CUD) if they are a poor candidate for bladder neck reconstruction or are receiving an augmentation cystoplasty (AC) or neobladder (NB).
It wasn't that Clinton was a poor candidate, in other words, but that voters were alienated by the fact of a woman seeking power.
The Church of England was available, but the multifaith character of religious England and the indifference of the secular majority made it a poor candidate.
That made them less susceptible to the Concertación's campaign claim that "it's not all the same [who governs]".Moreover, Mr Frei was a poor candidate.
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