unapt
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But George in his own line was dull and unapt to learn; or the whole adventure of the Greenhow drawing-room paper would never have happened.
From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
Nor is his mind dull or unapt; he will rebut or ridicule an adversary with astonishing shrewdness.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander
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
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 Burgon, John William
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
