unapt
Example Sentences
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He seemed quite excited, and made some passing observation relative to the Roman Circus, to which the present exhibition bore no unapt resemblance.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
See now whether it be true, that the said Board goes not to the Bottom, as being of Figure unapt to penetrate the Crassitude of the water.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
A child's house, several stories high, constructed out of playing-cards,—is no unapt image of the frail erection before us.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
You are unapt my looser lines to hear.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
That is to say, a vitiation of taste, by indulged excesses; the wine and high feasting of their own theatre—which really made them unapt for understanding Shakspeare.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
