inaptness

Example Sentences

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The fault is not in any inaptness of the images, nor in the mere vulgarity of the things themselves, but in that of the associations they awaken.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

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

A moment's relaxation, or inaptness, may forfeit opportunity, offered only by chance and not to be regained by effort.

From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

Apart from the tendency to convergent heredity already emphasised, there is a wider tendency to slight abnormality, a minor degree of inaptness for ordinary life in the parentage of genius.

From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

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.