"hardly apt for" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is usually used when something does not really fit the circumstances or situation. For example, "John's lighthearted remarks about the tragedy were hardly apt for the solemn occasion."
American officials also openly mocked China and Russia as states that repress free speech and transparency and therefore are hardly apt refuges for someone fighting government secrecy in the United States.
That compares with a £4.30m debut for Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie back in June, although the comparison is hardly apt.
And though "affordable luxury," the industry's preferred term for such projects, is hardly an apt description for apartments that remain beyond reach for most New Yorkers, developers are finding a deep pool of affluent buyers who have spent the last several years shut out of a market that catered to the global elite.
His successor will present a fresh start in promoting a reformist agenda of fixing the pension and health systems, providing jobs and making government and bureaucracy more accountable".Fresh", however, is hardly the apt term for the two contenders for the leadership, to be decided on May 16th.
Ferrell's last leading role was Anchorman 2, but that sequel to his best-loved film is hardly an apt comparison for Get Hard, and nor is 2012's The Campaign, a satirical comedy about US politics co-starring Zach Galifianakis, which struggled to connect in foreign markets.
The trouble with colleges of education, where most American teachers receive their training (although that's hardly an apt description) has been known for a long time.
Such imagery seems apt for this Mancunian band whose sound has, after nine years and three successful but hardly groundbreaking albums, arrived somewhere really interesting.
"Very apt for a failed potter".
Those distinctions are apt for gnocchi, too.
The metaphor proved apt for all.
