Example Sentences

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One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love strong as that I bear to thee Were sure unaptly told By dying flowers, or lifeless gems, Or soul-ensnaring gold.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

The consequence of this unavoidable defect in the materials of the induction is, that we can rarely obtain what Bacon has quaintly, but not unaptly, termed an experimentum crucis.

From Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart

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 Simms, William Gilmore

The vernacular name of gum-trees for the eucalypts is as unaptly given as that of most others of our native plants, on which popular appellations have been bestowed.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis