inapt
adjective
not apt or fitting.
inaptly
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a word derived from
inapt.
Example Sentences
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Since mid-March, I’d been in regular contact with a group of 20 detained immigrants in Irwin, calling them in $3.50 14-minute intervals via video visitation software inaptly named “GettingOut.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2020
The latest Taper botch, a set of one-acts by Ethan Coen inaptly titled “A Play Is a Poem,” once again had me wondering: Who beyond Ritchie is minding the literary store?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
Not the way the initial trial judge inaptly handled the evidentiary issues.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2019
It’s hard to imagine a film more inaptly named.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2017
"Your means are very slender and your waste is great," said the chief-justice to Sir John Falstaff; and the same observation might not inaptly have been addressed to Frontenac.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
