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Not elegant or graceful in expression.
awkward
clumsy
cumbersome
inept
ill-chosen
infelicitous
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.
inapt
curiously inapt
very inapt
all inapt
inapt administrations
inapt name