unapt
Example Sentences
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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
This trifling conflict exhibits no unapt similitude of one of the aspects of the great evil conflict, the edge of which he was then approaching.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
Some people are charitable enough to believe that English files are no unapt examples of English character.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
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
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 Burgon, John William
