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unˈaptly, adv.
[un-1 11 and 5 b.]
Inaptly.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke Pref., Why than should the ghospell seme to be vnaptely sent vnto those which are handlers and louers of the ghospell? 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 20 Yet are these places by him very vnskilfully cited and vnaptly to the purpose. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 56 It may be not unaptly called the paying our debts with another Man's money. 1659Gentl. Calling 57 In this respect therefore I may not unaptly apply that Exhortation which the Apostle makes in another. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxxiii, This composition was, by the sailors, not unaptly stiled Necessity. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 101 Dennis, my silver-headed foster-father, may not unaptly personate my real one. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xi, Mr. Wilson's mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. 168 A soft, yet spicy vivacity, in which it has been not unaptly compared to the Castillian. |