unapt

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If too feeble, too proud or unapt to create these, one may make up his mind to dispense with any advantage that power on that side of life confers.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

"Tender mercies of the law" might not be an unapt way to express the idea, as it is now almost certain that the bigger the rogue, the greater is the chance of escape.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

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