inapt
Example Sentences
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This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
But “stunned” is inapt to describe the alert, engaged crowds at the Supreme Court the day before.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2020
I stood for an inapt length of time watching soap bubble from a hole in the wall while Nathan stood yards away looking at a broom propped up by a kitchen knife.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
