inapt

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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

Carrington thinks comparisons between Bowser and Barry, whom she admired so much that she considered writing in his name this year, are inapt.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022

Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2020

I stood for an inapt length of time watching soap bubble from a hole in the wall while Nathan stood yards away looking at a broom propped up by a kitchen knife.

From New York Times • May 19, 2017

It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson