inapt
adjective
not apt or fitting.
inaptly
-
a word derived from
inapt.
Example Sentences
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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
For the remaining 1,037 schools, administrators chose the least aggressive and least effective approach, inaptly named "transformation."
From US News ● Sep. 14, 2016
These western highlands, therefore, may not inaptly be compared to an umbrella, sheltering the country further eastward from the rain.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
