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

You made my chance indisposition and occasional inaptness your minister—that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"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)

A moment's relaxation, or inaptness, may forfeit opportunity, offered only by chance and not to be regained by effort.

From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

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)