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inapposite

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Etymology

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Fromin- +‎apposite.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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inapposite (comparativemoreinapposite,superlativemostinapposite)

  1. inappropriate, notsuitable for the situation
    • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Biographia Literaria
      This remark, so ludicrouslyinapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;
    • 2022 December 12, Shalini Bhargava Ray, “Justices grapple with the legacy of a 2001 immigration detention case”, inSCOTUSblog:
      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, wasinapposite.

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inappropriate
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