unapt
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He is quiet, and unapt to be struck with wonder at any of the actions of men.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
The style of this little fragment of prose is not an unapt measure of the author's poetical style,—quaint, but not too quaint, more Anglo-Saxon than Latin, and decidedly laconic.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
See now whether it be true, that the said Board goes not to the Bottom, as being of Figure unapt to penetrate the Crassitude of the water.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
Wisdom, attended by virtue and a generous nature, is not unapt to be imposed on.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott
That is to say, a vitiation of taste, by indulged excesses; the wine and high feasting of their own theatre—which really made them unapt for understanding Shakspeare.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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