unapt

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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

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

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

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

It is not, then, because sacred subjects are peculiarly unapt for poetry, that so few sacred poets are popular.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David