inapposite

in- +‎ apposite

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈæpəzɪt/

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;

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

     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.