Not elegant or graceful in expression.
1 Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt .
2 Malcolm thought Cedric's name of Dr. Dryasdust was not an inapt title.
3 Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
4 So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar.
5 Why, he fetches up all the inapt , disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life.
6 The terms primary and secondary sex characteristics, though inapt , must be allowed to stand.
7 In that department, however, I was, and remained, very inapt .
8 To return an inapt yell would be worse than silence.
9 Its Indian name, signifying 'the chosen place,' was not inapt for our meeting ground.
10 It is the vice of the clodhopper, unattractive to women or inapt to court them.
11 People everywhere do not blame their economic predicament on inapt administrations, or on specific leaders.
12 The term "struggle for existence" is, then, not an inapt one.
13 The following description {208} of a class of contemporary dramas is not wholly inapt :
14 The parable is not by any means inapt .
15 Neufmarché disregarded the inapt remark, even as he ignored the sharp decline evidenced in Cadwgan's appearance.
16 It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name.
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