ADJECTIVE
  1. of an inappropriate or misapplied nature
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How To Use inapposite In A Sentence

  • The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
  • To these ludicrous features was added an intense and seemingly inapposite pride in his native country.
  • Paddy Cunneen's music, screechily inapposite Irish jigs scraped out on one or two instruments, is as unhelpful as the by-now-clichéd Edwardian costuming.
  • Indeed, the test, it can be argued, is inapposite in many cases.
  • Yet, in the event, the positions seemed ludicrously inapposite. Times, Sunday Times
  • But while allowing that his book is superior in almost every way to your average music journalism, I wonder whether in choosing such an inapposite subject Ricks is not throwing into question the value of academic scrutiny.
  • The use of the phrase ‘subject to licence’ is not wholly inapposite since it marks the need for the assignee to have a formal licence as part of his documents of title.
  • The ‘Duchess of Doom’ seems like an inapposite moniker for one whose accent is more the English south coast than south Kensington and whose blonde, good looks radiate charm.
  • It is, of course, axiomatic that in this field we must be on our guard, when considering liability for damages in nuisance, not to draw inapposite conclusions from cases concerned only with a claim for an injunction.
  • He insisted that the data supplied by the claimants rested ‘on surmise and inapposite extrapolations from animal studies and industrial accidents’.
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