inaptlyadv.
In an inapt manner; unfitly, inappropriately.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adverb]
wrongc1175
unkindlyc1300
wrongly1303
unworthily1377
uncovenablya1382
improperly1390
inconveniently1509
ineptly1523
impertinently1546
unaptly1548
unfeatly1548
unhandsomely1548
unfitly1561
disagreeably1566
unmeet1577
unsuitably1624
malapropos1630
unfittingly1637
unfit1653
unworthy1661
inaptly1809
misappropriatelyc1831
infelicitouslya1834
ineligibly1846
inappropriately1847
inapplicably1864
unapropos1956
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 28 Sept. (1812) 109 So might the philosophy of Rousseau and his followers not inaptly be entitled, Metapolitics.
1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. ii. 34 These associations may not inaptly be compared to the then military organization of the country.
1885 Law Times 78 211/2 An auction is not inaptly called locus penitentiæ.
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