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inapposite

adjective as in foreign

adjective as in malapropos

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Example Sentences

They are not content to tell you that this or that inapposite event has taken place.

It depends for its effect, not upon ornament, which perforce appears trivial and inapposite, but upon its mass.

This speech of Aeneas, though not inapposite, is rather didactic—a fault which always remained a danger to Euripides.

He stood before his bookshelves trying to select a volume, rejecting one after another as inapposite.

This lesson is, perhaps, not inapposite for a nation already proud in arms but new in history.

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On this page you'll find 423 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inapposite, such as: additional, immaterial, incidental, nonessential, superfluous, and supplementary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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