unapt
Example Sentences
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Keats, on the other hand, had a mind constitutionally unapt for abstract thinking.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
"Tender mercies of the law" might not be an unapt way to express the idea, as it is now almost certain that the bigger the rogue, the greater is the chance of escape.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
You see, the physician doesn't preach, as a rule, and I'm afraid the priest is equally unapt to practise.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
According to Hodgson the buansu, as it is called in Nepal, runs in a long, lobbing canter, unapt at the double, and considers it inferior in speed to the jackal and fox.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
You are unapt my looser lines to hear.
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
