inapt
Example Sentences
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This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Carrington thinks comparisons between Bowser and Barry, whom she admired so much that she considered writing in his name this year, are inapt.
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2020
That doesn’t strike me as a real obstacle, but it’s easy enough to imagine alternative, equally generic wake words if others find “computer” inapt: “device,” “machine,” and “robot” come to mind.
From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017
It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.