单词 | unaptly |
释义 | unaptlyadv. Inaptly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adverb] wrongc1175 unkindlyc1300 wrongly1303 unworthily1377 uncovenablya1382 improperly1390 inconveniently1509 ineptly1523 impertinently1546 unaptly1548 unfeatly1548 unhandsomely1548 unfitly1561 disagreeably1566 unmeet1577 unsuitably1624 malapropos1630 unfittingly1637 unfit1653 unworthy1661 inaptly1809 misappropriatelyc1831 infelicitouslya1834 ineligibly1846 inappropriately1847 inapplicably1864 unapropos1956 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke Pref. Why than should the ghospell seme to be vnaptely sent vnto those which are handlers and louers of the ghospell? 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 20 Yet are these places by him very vnskilfully cited and vnaptly to the purpose. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 26 It may bee not vnaptly called the paying our Debts with another mans money. 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 57 In this respect therefore I may not unaptly apply that exhortation which the Apostle makes in another. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxiii. 291 This composition, was by the sailors not unaptly stiled Necessity. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 101 Dennis, my silver-headed foster-father, may not unaptly personate my real one. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xi. 164 Mr. Wilson's mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 168 A soft, yet spicy vivacity, in which it has been not unaptly compared to the Castillian. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1548 |
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