unapt

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The style of this little fragment of prose is not an unapt measure of the author's poetical style,—quaint, but not too quaint, more Anglo-Saxon than Latin, and decidedly laconic.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

Polyphontes Not so; let these Messenian maidens mark The fear'd and blacken'd ruler of their race, Albeit with lips unapt to self-excuse, Blow off the spot of murder from his name.—

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Indeed, the phrase before us supplies no unapt illustration of the precariousness of the style of remark which is just now engaging our attention.

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William

First it fared ill with me, for he was a choleric man, and I but an unapt peasant lad.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

For you are just, and are not angry lightly; And he is mild, unapt to give offence, As you to be offended.

From The Fatal Falsehood by More, Hannah