| 词汇 | inapt |
| 释义 | inapt adjective uk /ɪˈnæpt/ us /ɪˈnæpt/ not suitable for the situation: 不合时宜的 His comments were perhaps inapt.他的评论可能是不合时宜的。 Unsuitable and unacceptable amiss be in bad, poor, the worst possible, etc. tasteidiom beneath your dignityidiom beyond beyond the paleidiom incorrectly indecent ineligibility ineligible infelicitous raffish raffishly raffishness room silly unsuitable unsuitably unsuited unsupportable unwarrantable Examples of inaptinapt The defendant was not responsible, so desert is entirely inapt. Conversely, when a fact is only contingently related to our principles of action, the "just because" seems inapt. As they stand, the words after "dancing" in line 27 are not very inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that it is altogether inapt here. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me say that such a charge would be completely inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The word "requisite" seems to me to be extraordinarily inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Otherwise, his remarks appear to be singularly inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But "handling" seems to me an inapt word, and one which may be slightly misleading to a jury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are cases where we get what is often called creeping decontrol, a particularly inapt description. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But, as has been made clear, this excursion is in itself totally inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that would be a mistake, not only because it is threadbare but because it is inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think my analogy is at all far-drawn or inapt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He obviously cannot accept words if they are inapt for the purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a qualification that was arguable as being an inapt and inadequate qualification when introduced, nearly 150 years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It strikes me as an extraordinarily inapt description. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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