unapt
adjective
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable.
unaptly
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a word derived from
unapt.
Example Sentences
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One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was not unaptly called by some the seal skin eruption.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
"If I have unaptly said any thing offensive, I hope Miss St. Clair will believe me, when I say that such a design was the farthest from my thoughts."
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by William Alexander Caruthers
So much for the arguments wielded by Dr. Johnson, who has not been unaptly termed the Colossus of Literature.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 by Various
They may be compared, not unaptly, to persons whom some peculiarity of constitution enables to set at defiance those established rules of living, which must be observed by the world at large.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
