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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances.

From Poets of the South by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

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)

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

She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.

From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile