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• s  not elegant or graceful in expression

• But the comparison to Vietnam took many observers by surprise, seeming not only inapt but also unnecessarily risky.
• Of The Avengers, a high-profile flop, he rues "some spark not there" with co-star Uma Thurman and curses an inapt chapeau: "I looked crap in that bowler hat.
• But the comparison to Vietnam took many observers by surprise, seeming not only inapt but also unnecessarily risky.

• awkward
• clumsy
• cumbersome
• inept
• ill-chosen

News & Articles

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• Conservatives Need To Stop Comparing Obamacare To Slavery — Here's What They Should Be Comparing It To Instead
  Conservatives need to stop comparing the fight against Obamacare to 19th century efforts to resist slavery. This comparison isn't just inapt (and offensive to those it attempts to persuade), it misses the point.
  Nov. 21, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Jaynee LaVecchia in The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
  Although socially inapt and, no doubt, annoying, ...... (his) conduct did not approach sexual harassment. Persons who are socially tone deaf are not, by that characteristic, necessarily the equivalent of sexual harassment,wrote Justice Jaynee...
• Stephen Breyer in USA Today
  Look at the circumstances he accepted the captaincy in. And in Australia specially in Sydney, Pakistan held the advantage on first three days but lost the match on the fourth day due to inapt performances from all sides. It is very sad that we lost... Inzamam ul-Haq http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inzamam-ul-Haq&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHnkT2H6VfKSCOmvafgM2FVolNGTQ Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/Pak-team-lacks-skill-passion-mental-fitness-Akram/articleshow/5434431.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFBTxCbd-nFCPcx-SjkmH1cih3Dxw Jan 11, 2010 50412 68160 inapt We have no reason to believe that Congress considered the added enforcement advantages flowing from inclusion of foreign crimes, weighing them against, say, the potential unfairness of preventing those with inapt foreign convictions from possessing...