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

That’s a dated but not altogether inapt reference.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

En route to self-discovery, she picks up Caan’s Kilgannon, a sweet, guileless, brain-damaged former player whose tragically inapt nickname is Killer.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2020

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

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