unapt
Example Sentences
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But George in his own line was dull and unapt to learn; or the whole adventure of the Greenhow drawing-room paper would never have happened.
From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
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
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
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
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
