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inappositeness

/in-ap-uh-zit/US // ɪnˈæp ə zɪt //UK // (ɪnˈæpəzɪt) //

不合适,不适宜性,不合时宜,不适宜

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not apposite; not pertinent.

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Examples

  • They are not content to tell you that this or that inapposite event has taken place.

  • It depends for its effect, not upon ornament, which perforce appears trivial and inapposite, but upon its mass.

  • This speech of Aeneas, though not inapposite, is rather didactic—a fault which always remained a danger to Euripides.

  • He stood before his bookshelves trying to select a volume, rejecting one after another as inapposite.

  • This lesson is, perhaps, not inapposite for a nation already proud in arms but new in history.