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

His abrupt and broken sentences, his sudden outbreaks of intelligence or passion, were not inaptly conveyed by the character of a handwriting which was bold, careless, and hurried.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James