unapt

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You see, the physician doesn't preach, as a rule, and I'm afraid the priest is equally unapt to practise.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore

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

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.)

Polyphontes Not so; let these Messenian maidens mark The fear'd and blacken'd ruler of their race, Albeit with lips unapt to self-excuse, Blow off the spot of murder from his name.—

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew