unapt
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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
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 Edmund David Jones
In the meantime, a pyramid balanced on its apex proves to be no unapt image of the Textual theory of Drs. Westcott and Hort.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
He is quiet, and unapt to be struck with wonder at any of the actions of men.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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 Matthew Arnold
