unapt
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You see, the physician doesn't preach, as a rule, and I'm afraid the priest is equally unapt to practise.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore
And partly, because I am not unapt to think, that they may come abroad seasonably enough, though not for the Authors reputation, yet for other purposes.
It is not, then, because sacred subjects are peculiarly unapt for poetry, that so few sacred poets are popular.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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
If too feeble, too proud or unapt to create these, one may make up his mind to dispense with any advantage that power on that side of life confers.
From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.