inaptness
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, as her voice rose clear and sweet to my open windows, I answered remarks addressed to me with an inaptness that only Mrs. Yocomb understood.
From A Day of Fate by Roe, Edward Payson
She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.
From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile
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)
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 Marchand, J. N.
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
