inaptness
Example Sentences
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You made my chance indisposition and occasional inaptness your minister—that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She started to leave, furious with herself for her inaptness, and instead of going she paused and turned back.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
The last-mentioned character is a farmer, but, like the others, he is a species of incapable; and the word dandin in the old French dictionaries is given as signifying inaptness or incapacity.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
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 Jeannie Gunn
Especially unfortunate, and finally disastrous to the American arms, was the inaptness and inertness of the Secretary of War, General Armstrong, in failing to adopt, promptly and adequately, measures to meet the emergency.
From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick) Smith
