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inapt /ɪnˈapt /adjectiveNot suitable or appropriate in the circumstances: a more inapt name I cannot imagine...- In such circumstances it is inapt to burden the courts of Jersey with this case in any way.
- Moreover, the use of ‘shall’ 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.
- The expression ‘cost of reinstatement, repair or replacement’ is wholly apt in relation to buildings, fixtures, fittings and goods, but wholly inapt in relation to economic loss.
Derivatives inaptitude /ɪnˈaptɪtjuːd / noun ...- There are other questions and inaptitude that go unanswered except to allow a movie to tie up loose ends quickly and move the plot along.
- If antirelationality is inherent in all homoness, then Beckett's ‘contagious destruction of relations’ and ‘subversion of relationality’ figure productively in that inherent inaptitude.
- The constructed legal rationale then is the causal contingency of possession, use, and ‘mental defects’ or ‘characterological inaptitude.’
inaptly /ɪnˈaptli / adverb ...- The opening episode, inaptly called ‘Rocking the Foundations’, did not begin: it simply dropped viewers into the middle of a situation that had no evident origins.
- Whisper it gently, but at last there are signs that common sense may prevail in the inaptly named ‘war on drugs’.
- The East London News reported, ‘The week might not inaptly be called the week of strikes - coal men, match girls, parcels postmen, car men, rag, bone and paper porters and pickers.’
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