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Definition of "inaptly" [inaptly]

  • In an inapt manner; inappropriately. (adverb)

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Use "inaptly" in a sentence
  • "About the only names slipping by here are two current authors who keep getting buried, either in the mound of 'grit' that seems to be pouring out of book covers these days or beneath the inaptly applied 'doorstopper' description: Steven Erikson and Joe Abercrombie."
  • "Except, perhaps, in Westminster, where I picked up a copy of the Westminster Record, an inaptly named four-page propaganda sheet published not, they say, at our expense for the Conservatives."
  • "But I am even more outraged by loss of civil rights that belong to all of us -- rights that were constitutionally written in stone, we were told -- until they became pliable and then curtailed under the inaptly named Patriot Act, which was sold to the public out of fear of one evildoer."