inaptness

Example Sentences

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She stopped, the needle poised above Lee's arm, realizing the inaptness of her remark.

From Am I Still There? by Hall, James R.

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

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

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

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 Smith, Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick)