Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inapt manner; unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.
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- adverb In an
inapt manner;inappropriately .
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Examples
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Foremost among them is the inaptly cloying archness with which Vivian addresses the audience from start to finish "It is not my intention to give away the plot, but I think I die at the end".
Into the (Spot)light Terry Teachout 2012
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What is new is the case of the inaptly, or perhaps too aptly, named Congressman Weiner.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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What is new is the case of the inaptly, or perhaps too aptly, named Congressman Weiner.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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Except, perhaps, in Westminster, where I picked up a copy of the Westminster Record, an inaptly named four-page propaganda sheet published not, they say, at our expense for the Conservatives.
Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping the good life in the family 2011
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Except, perhaps, in Westminster, where I picked up a copy of the Westminster Record, an inaptly named four-page propaganda sheet published not, they say, at our expense for the Conservatives.
Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping the good life in the family 2011
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About the only names slipping by here are two current authors who keep getting buried, either in the mound of 'grit' that seems to be pouring out of book covers these days or beneath the inaptly applied 'doorstopper' description: Steven Erikson and Joe Abercrombie.
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But I am even more outraged by loss of civil rights that belong to all of us -- rights that were constitutionally written in stone, we were told -- until they became pliable and then curtailed under the inaptly named Patriot Act, which was sold to the public out of fear of one evildoer.
Rizwan A. Rahmani: The War on Terror and Ghosts of Osama Bin Laden Rizwan A. Rahmani 2011
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What is new is the case of the inaptly, or perhaps too aptly, named Congressman Weiner.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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