inaptness

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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 Burroughs, John

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.

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

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