Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not pertinent; unsuitable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent: as, an inapposite argument.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
inappropriate , notsuitable for the situation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of an inappropriate or misapplied nature
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Examples
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Jack: As far as I can tell, the reference to Hamdi is inapposite.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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As far as I can tell, the reference to Hamdi is inapposite.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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You can stop polluting the thread with inapposite analogies now.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010
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I kept reading after the first 60 pages just to see what hilariously inapposite imagery he could come up with next.
GR5: The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2010
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Any analogies to correcting something like Google Maps is inapposite.
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You can stop polluting the thread with inapposite analogies now.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010
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Kurt Weill constructed "Bilbao Song" for his 1929 musical comedy "Happy End" out of two distinct, inapposite melodies: a fast, choppy foxtrot and a slow, romantic quasi-bolero.
Female Leads, Classic Beats, Gil at St. Pete's Will Friedwald 2011
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The latter is dubbed, with a propensity for the pinpoint inapposite that racing shares primarily with Prince Philip, the Filly Factor.
The landmarks and pitfalls of racing's gender agenda | Lydia Hislop 2011
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The post in fact barely more than a largely inapposite display of reflexive hostility (but not anti-semitism! happy?) that fails to engage barely at all with what LW says except to excerpt a few questionable quotes out of context.
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John Paul II's thoughts are inapposite to mine but maybe I was not clear enough in my first post.
Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009
yarb commented on the word inapposite
Citation on spew.
July 4, 2008