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inapposite Tweet Definition of inapposite Like Definition of inapposite on Facebook
adjective 
  1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
    • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
    • :This remark, so ludicrously to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;
Etymology: negative in- + apposite


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