inaptness
Example Sentences
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In this hope he was deceived by his own inaptness and his adversary's readiness.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
From what is recorded of the infancy of Chatterton, parents may be satisfied that an inaptness to learn in childhood, is far from being a prognostic of future dullness.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught.”
From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
As we clambered on, two bushmen all in white, a dog or two, and a woman in a holland riding-dress, the Maluka pointed out the inaptness of the simile.
From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie
There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances.
From Poets of the South by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
