inaptness

Example Sentences

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There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances.

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

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.

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

Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught.”

From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

From what is recorded of the infancy of Chatterton, parents may be satisfied that an inaptness to learn in childhood, is far from being a prognostic of future dullness.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis