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How to pronounce inapt in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inept
Derivation inaptness

Examples of inapt

inapt
Over his 80-year career, AL HIRSCHFELD'S witty hand made hardly an inapt stroke.
From the time.com
How many million of these inapt people are already wasting space over here?
From the independent.co.uk
Others around the net have likened it to Bitcoin, but that's really an inapt comparison.
From the techcrunch.com
Second, in the context of Israel this argument is especially inapt.
From the scienceblogs.com
Sotomayor then challenged another line of her reasoning as inapt.
From the usatoday.com
In the post-secular world today's categories of left and right will become inapt and obsolete.
From the theatlantic.com
Well, your own first sentence proves you are inapt to legislate.
From the economist.com
This also shows why Feser's invocation of Latour is inapt.
From the scienceblogs.com
This profession was not entirely inapt, since at that time books were sold from apothecaries'shops.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Awkward: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
  • Inappropriateness; "greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine"
  • Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept
  • (inaptly) In an inapt manner; inappropriately