inapt

Everybody on TV seemed to like it, but I found it ... not exactly inappropriate, but inapt.
Obama’s State of the Union Was Strong on Substance, Weak on Poetry|Michael Tomasky|January 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Nor did we find this description at all inapt as we drove over its excellent roads during the fine July weather.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.
Birds of the Rockies|Leander Sylvester Keyser
This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese-box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln|John G. Nicolay

Hurrying to the spot I met with a little adventure which it may not be inapt to relate.
Birds and Man|W. H. Hudson
But this latter comparison, as I have shown, was curiously inapt if intended to cover the whole direction of the enterprise.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge|Alfred F. B. Carpenter

British Dictionary definitions for inapt

inapt

/ (ɪnˈæpt) /

adjective

not apt or fitting; inappropriate

lacking skill; inept

Derived forms of inapt

inaptitude or inaptness, nouninaptly, adverb

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