Meaning of inapposite | Babel Free

Definitions

inappropriate, not suitable for the situation

Equivalents

Examples

“1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;”

“But [Assistant to the Solicitor General Austin] Raynor relied on this distinction – whether proceedings are pending, or all proceedings have ended – to argue that the court’s 2001 decision interpreting the post-removal order statute, Zadvydas v. Davis, was inapposite.”

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