unapt
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Indeed, the phrase before us supplies no unapt illustration of the precariousness of the style of remark which is just now engaging our attention.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William
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
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 Colvin, Sidney
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 James, Henry
Polyphontes Not so; let these Messenian maidens mark The fear'd and blacken'd ruler of their race, Albeit with lips unapt to self-excuse, Blow off the spot of murder from his name.—
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
