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
I was, for the first time, studying rogues, and the study of rogues is not unaptly fitted to make one take up the business.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
This species differs from the other plants of the genus, in the colour of its outermost petals, which are long, narrow, purple, and pendulous, and not unaptly resemble small pieces of red tape.
From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 1 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis
And yet one might apply here, not unaptly, what was said to the man of curiosity,733 "Malignant wretch, why art so keen to mark Thy neighbour's fault, and seest not thine own?"
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
These reflections will not unaptly precede the return of Lady Bellingham from her northern expedition.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
