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 Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Robert Lynd
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Either from overboldness in the metaphors, or from some unaptness in the material of them, I have to confess that my mind rather rebels against these stretches of poetical prerogative.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
