unapt

Example Sentences

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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

You are unapt my looser lines to hear.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur 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

He is essentially and inevitably unapt to be powerfully acted on by what is invisible and future.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

In the meantime, a pyramid balanced on its apex proves to be no unapt image of the Textual theory of Drs. Westcott and Hort.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William