unapt
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Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, Unapt to toll and trouble in the world, But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?
From The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, William
My blood hath been too cold and temperate, Unapt to stir at these indignities; But you have found me.
From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Unapt, un-apt′, adj. not suitable or qualified for: dull, inapt.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
“Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, Unapt to toil, and trouble in the world, But that our soft conditions, and our hearts, Should well agree with our external parts?”
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster
Unapt and unskilful pupils, she taught the Ostrogothic workman to plan the palace of Theodoric; the Frank, to decorate the hall of Charlemagne; the Lombard, to vault the duomo; the Norman, to design the cathedral.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
