The phrase "a poor subject" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is not suitable or effective for a particular purpose or context.
Example: "The experiment failed because it was conducted on a poor subject that did not represent the population accurately."
Alternatives: "an unsuitable candidate" or "a weak example".
When Prince B. arrived, he declined an interview saying that he was a poor subject.
"Although globalization is universally acknowledged as one of the most pressing issues of our time, it has usually proved a poor subject for fiction," the writer Siddhartha Deb observes.
Amazingly, neither party ever seriously considers the highly attractive option of abortion, which may be a sign that the anti-abortion movement is gathering strength in Hollywood, or may simply result from a realisation that abortion makes a poor subject for a comedy (puking and watching women on the toilet is fine, though).
In conclusion, we describe a field of research limited by poor subject classification and variable outcomes.
Muslims in Europe realise this fate not as a commercial bourgeoisie triumphing over a religious and aristocratic elite but as a poor minority subject to the compulsions and prejudices of an aggressively secular state with which they share a long and dark history.
Just pulse darkness so as not to turn the poor subject into some kind of demon, twitching under a heat lamp.
19 Furthermore, it has been reported that assessing PA for greater than a 6-month period and across seasons is unreliable due to poor subject recall.
Particular issues, this teacher said, included "poor subject knowledge and lack of commitment to the role".
Furthermore, oculomotor paradigms are resilient to inconsistent or poor subject effort (Heitger et al., 2009).
"Billy just picked poor subjects -- his selection of material was not good," said Richard D. Zanuck, who produced the film with Scott Rudin.
Despite benevolent mission statements, however, these organizations perpetuate long-standing poverty discourses that distinguish between deserving and undeserving poor subjects.
