unapt

Example Sentences

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See now whether it be true, that the said Board goes not to the Bottom, as being of Figure unapt to penetrate the Crassitude of the water.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

You are unapt my looser lines to hear.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Some people are charitable enough to believe that English files are no unapt examples of English character.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

A child's house, several stories high, constructed out of playing-cards,—is no unapt image of the frail erection before us.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

Whatever Ellis thought of himself, there were several other boys just as awkward, or at all events as unapt to learn military manners.

From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by Thomas, William I.