inaptness
Example Sentences
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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 John Burroughs
"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 Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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 James Russell Lowell
She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
