unapt
Example Sentences
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It is not, then, because sacred subjects are peculiarly unapt for poetry, that so few sacred poets are popular.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
A most merciful man, as ready to forgive, as unapt to take or give an offence.
From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn
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
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
But George in his own line was dull and unapt to learn; or the whole adventure of the Greenhow drawing-room paper would never have happened.
From The Carbonels by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
