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apt

adjective as in tending, inclined

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But in recent days, I've found Sarah Palin an even more apt comparison.

Today, it's our governing elites, regardless of party, who are most apt rush us into the future.

Experts we talked to said the comparison between Goodell and law enforcement may not necessarily be apt.

The compilation also brought the Nazi-riffic Apt Pupil and leach-tastic The Body (aka Stand By Me) to the silver screen.

Their timing is apt: The medical examiner is now a hot commodity in TV-land.

We are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.

Those of a more serious turn are apt to show a curious preference for the graver aspects of things.

In this country, we are apt to think when any one dresses himself up, that he is disguising a fool.

In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.

But Bull in authority anywhere is apt to exhibit his horns to those whom he suspects of being nobodies.

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On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apt, such as: appropriate, apropos, correct, felicitous, fitting, and happy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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