inaptness
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Then his seriousness and simplicity, like that of Biblical and Oriental writers,—a kind of childish inaptness and homeliness,—often exposes him to our keen, almost abnormal sense of the ridiculous.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
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
She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
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 Edward Payson Roe
After an especially miserable showing of inaptness one morning, he flung down his driver in disgust.
From Best Short Stories by Thomas L. Masson
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