unapt

Example Sentences

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She had never seen just such a colour in a man, and the Apollo simile was not so unapt.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton

"No, sir," said Norton, growing desperate and colouring, which he was very unapt to do.

From Opportunities by Warner, Susan

Clement was getting towards an age when clever youngsters are not unapt to exercise their talents in depreciating home surroundings.

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Keats, on the other hand, had a mind constitutionally unapt for abstract thinking.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

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