unapt
adjective
not appropriate; unfit; unsuitable.
unaptness
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a word derived from
unapt.
Example Sentences
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Or, perhaps, no correction is necessary, if we construe “made you” as “did you make;” “and that unaptness did you make help you thus to excuse yourself.”
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Go to: Perchance some single vantages you took, When my indisposition put you back; And that unaptness made your minister Thus to excuse yourself.
From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William
You made my chance indisposition and occasional unaptness your minister—that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Or, perhaps, no correction is necessary, if we construe 'made you' as 'did you make;' 'and that unaptness did you make help you thus to excuse yourself.'
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The bent of his intellect was classical, as we see in his astonishing Observations on the Art of English Poesy, in which he sets out to demonstrate “the unaptness of rhyme in poesy.”
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
