inaptness

Example Sentences

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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 Roe, Edward Payson

"He has never expressed any anxiety," Grace began, with her inaptness at evasion.

From Dr. Breen's Practice by Howells, William Dean

After an especially miserable showing of inaptness one morning, he flung down his driver in disgust.

From Best Short Stories by Masson, Thomas L.

The last-mentioned character is a farmer, but, like the others, he is a species of incapable; and the word dandin in the old French dictionaries is given as signifying inaptness or incapacity.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

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