inaptness

Example Sentences

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"Oh, I'm sorry," murmured the girl, striving so hard to speak with impersonal unconcern that she did not notice the inaptness of her reply.

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

My dear Dick, I am becoming accustomed to the extraordinary inaptness of your scriptural allusions.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

The fault is not in any inaptness of the images, nor in the mere vulgarity of the things themselves, but in that of the associations they awaken.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

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

From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile

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)