unapt

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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

"Tender mercies of the law" might not be an unapt way to express the idea, as it is now almost certain that the bigger the rogue, the greater is the chance of escape.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

Keats, on the other hand, had a mind constitutionally unapt for abstract thinking.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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

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