inapposite

comparative more inapposite · superlative most inapposite

1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation

   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;

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   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.

   2022 December 12, Shalini Bhargava Ray, “Justices grapple with the legacy of a 2001 immigration detention case”, in SCOTUSblog