inapt

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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

Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2020

How inapt that the most prosocial thing we can do is to avoid one another.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

That doesn’t strike me as a real obstacle, but it’s easy enough to imagine alternative, equally generic wake words if others find “computer” inapt: “device,” “machine,” and “robot” come to mind.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017

It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson