unapt
Example Sentences
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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
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
First it fared ill with me, for he was a choleric man, and I but an unapt peasant lad.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav
It contains a curious item, showing that even in the rigid times that produced the great Puritan upheaval, congregations were not unapt for irreverence.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
And partly, because I am not unapt to think, that they may come abroad seasonably enough, though not for the Authors reputation, yet for other purposes.
