unapt
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It contains a curious item, showing that even in the rigid times that produced the great Puritan upheaval, congregations were not unapt for irreverence.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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
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 William Alexander Caruthers
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
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 Hannah More
