unapt

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He is essentially and inevitably unapt to be powerfully acted on by what is invisible and future.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

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

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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

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

He seemed quite excited, and made some passing observation relative to the Roman Circus, to which the present exhibition bore no unapt resemblance.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various