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单词 unaptly
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unaptlyadv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈaptli/, U.S. /ˌənˈæp(t)li/
Etymology: un- prefix1 5Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈaptly.
Inaptly.
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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).
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