inapt
Example Sentences
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This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
The last might be a slightly inapt choice, given that it comes sometime after Manson’s feelings on the negative effects of the “human highlight reel of social media.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2020
How inapt that the most prosocial thing we can do is to avoid one another.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020
It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
