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Adjective(1) not elegant or graceful in expression,incompetent; not suitable(2) not elegant or graceful in expression(3) incompetent; not suitable

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(1) That analogy is singularly inapt to this particular situation.(2) And it strikes me as a singularly inapt analogy to make, an analogy that ought to make one question its user's underlying thinking about the problem.(3) I will follow the convention of referring to all non-left/liberal ideologies as u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510conservative,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb however inapt that may be.(4) They don't seem to realize how the use of this inapt example demonstrates their inability to grasp the nature of new and different conflicts.(5) Moreover, the use of u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510shallu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb in the condition is inapt : the condition was not requiring, merely enabling, the indoor market to the held on up to ten days throughout the year over and above Saturdays and Sundays.(6) Still, I think that Heidegger, like no other before him, has shown an aspect (and that itself is a laughably inapt term) of our world, an aspect we take for granted and have learned ever more easily to inhabit without thinking.(7) Well, many politicians and others use historical allusions, and they almost always are inapt because no two situations are the same.(8) Some analogies are persuasive; other analogies are inapt .(9) I had been comparing the arcs with rainbows, which now seems inapt .(10) I think the metaphor is completely inapt and is really an apples-and-oranges sort of thing.(11) But the comparison to Eisenhower's notorious caginess strikes me as quite inapt .(12) The expression u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510cost of reinstatement, repair or replacementu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb is wholly apt in relation to buildings, fixtures, fittings and goods, but wholly inapt in relation to economic loss.(13) At first glance, the metaphor - a rising tide of mediocrity - seems inapt , even odd.(14) To address the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared national emergency, relying on a generation-old statute that was arguably inapt because it was intended for wartime, and the country was not then at war.(15) An article in last Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle makes a particularly inapt comparison.(16) Moreover, the use of the adverb u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510suddenlyu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb in the context is singularly inapt to describe the nature of the change to which the respondent's daughter would be exposed if she were now to be required to move school.
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(1) inapt
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Adjective
1. clumsy
2. cumbersome
3. ill-chosen
4. awkward
5. inept


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