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 Edmund David Jones
Indeed, the phrase before us supplies no unapt illustration of the precariousness of the style of remark which is just now engaging our attention.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon
A most merciful man, as ready to forgive, as unapt to take or give an offence.
From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn
He was too often morose and unamiable—habitually despising those who were not his friends, and not unapt to dislike even his best friends, if they retorted his wit, or defended themselves successfully against his satire.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
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 W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
