unapt

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He was too often morose and unamiable—habitually despising those who were not his friends, and not unapt to dislike even his best friends, if they retorted his wit, or defended themselves successfully against his satire.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

Cautiously he makes the attempt, but, finding his fingers unapt at the task, solves his difficulty by aid of Nothung.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

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.

This tree passes by the very unapt vernacular name Yellow Box-tree, though no portion of it is yellow, not even its wood, and though the latter resembles the real boxwood in no way whatever.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage