inaptness
Example Sentences
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She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
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
"Oh, I'm sorry," murmured the girl, striving so hard to speak with impersonal unconcern that she did not notice the inaptness of her reply.
From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
"He has never expressed any anxiety," Grace began, with her inaptness at evasion.
From Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells
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
